Common Voice: Contribute-athon Global

Description

Agenda
Thursday 14th October, 9 am to 11:30 am [UTC]

Creating with Common Voice, Remy – 9:15am to 9:30am Mbaza, a chatbot that provides timely and accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kinyarwanda, French, and English languages

Let’s Contribute – 10am to 10:30am Onboarding to learn how you can contribute to Common Voice

New Language Workflow – 10:45am to 11:30am We want to improve the experiences of the end to end process for languages on Common Voice. Share your views on: What documentation support is missing and needs to be prioritised? How could we change the 5000 sentence collection requirement to be more nuanced?
Thursday 14th October, 4pm to 6pm [UTC]

Creating with Common Voice, Paul and Genta – 4:10pm to 4:25pm Learn how Paul is using Common Voice for training a Spoken Language Identifier. Genta will talk about their co-authored paper on „Meta-Transfer Learning for Code-Switched Speech Recognition“.

Language Diversity Impact Assessment – 4:30pm to 5:15pm The language diversity impact assessment is a way of informing decisions about what features are built-in Common Voice by evaluating the impact on language communities and potential mitigation strategies.

Let’s Contribute – 5:30pm to 6pm Onboarding to learn how you can contribute to Common Voice
Thursday 21st October, 9am to 11:30am [UTC]

Hacktoberfest Special – 9:10am to 9:45am Common Voice is an open-source project, learn how you can contribute with or without code!

Let’s Contribute – 10am to 10:45am Learn how you can contribute to Common Voice

New Language Workflow – 10:45am to 11:30am We want to improve the experiences of the end to end process for languages on Common Voice. Share your views on: What documentation support is missing and needs to be prioritised? How could we change the 5000 sentence collection requirement to be more nuanced?
Thursday 21st October, 1pm to 3:30pm [UTC]

Creating with Common Voice, Naail – 1:10pm to 1:25pm Learn how Naail, Common Voice Dhivehi Community is using the Common Voice Dataset.

Language Diversity Impact Assessment – 1:30pm to 2:15pm The language diversity impact assessment is a way of informing decisions about what features are built-in Common Voice by evaluating the impact on language communities and potential mitigation strategies.

Let’s Contribute – 2:30pm to 3pm Validation Party! Helps us to validate voice clips on Common Voice

Goals

Contribute-athon Global is an opportunity to learn, share and create voice data that can support everyone. The sessions will feature lightning talks on how people are using the Common Voice Dataset and an opportunity to contribute to Common Voice.

If you are #CommonVoiceNewbie or veteran these sessions are for you !