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See:
https://voice.mozilla.org/
very easy to use and potentially a very useful thing to have as an open-source model.

Fantastic!
However, I couldn't find neither feedback, nor my question answered in FAQ.
They do not list post-USSR countries in accent selection Neither preference in sound quality (I can record by both webcam audio and by semi-professional studio equipment). Also there are no guides for reading, e.g. should it be as neutral as possible, or with some artistic feel to it? Well, actually those are not too important, but might make the audition a bit better.

To everybody:
Recording your voice is not the only way to easily help the engine. You may just listen and mark other's auditions as valid, `cause it's damn hell of manual work.

Yeah, the website is a bit focussed on English accents, while the reality is that the English voice recognition will also be used by a lot of non-native speakers. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, as in the end it will help the machine learning framework to better understand non-native voices. There are also already quite a few obviously non-native speakers if you listen to the sentences. Same goes for recording quality... it should in fact be non-perfect samples so that the system can better distinguish between background and recording noises and the actual voice. So by all means, use you web-cam and not your professional equipment.

However, what I am a bit concerned about is that they chose "book reading" examples. Somehow people have different and more intentionally pronounced voices when they read stories from a book, and this becomes very evident in the recorded samples. I am not an expert on voice recognition, but it would seem to me that this will somewhat distort the ML model towards this kind of task and that it will not work so well with the actual more common use-case of voice commands or transcription of natural conversations.

Yep. Noted that too.

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Now also with some other languages and some interface changes.

I am thinking about the disable people. Some years ago, my couple was in bed for a month more or less (a health problem in the back) and I made (as DIY) a PC for this situation. We has a PC for to see films in the dinning room with a wireless keyboard (with mouse) and projector. Well I put this PC in the bedroom and the projects targeted to top wall (it's say in spanish? For the wall that hangs the lamp) and she could do her things (chat in social networks, study, see videos ... ).

Top wall = ceiling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ceil ... Agadir.jpg

"Couple" in English usually refers to two people in a romantic relationship.
"My partner" would be more common, or "my wife" if you're married and she is a woman. "Girlfriend" if you're not married yet.

Hope that helps! English is the JavaScript of human languages - Popular but insane

SecureUvula {l Wrote}:English is the JavaScript of human languages - Popular but insane

That's great! I am going to say this all the time now

I'm impressed with the progress they've made. More power to the folks at Mozilla!