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Common Voice Community Social Media Campaign

October 11 - October 20, 2021

Inspire people to make voice AI better for everyone by explaining how they can contribute to Mozilla Common Voice. 

Join us as we launch our social media campaign. Post, like and reshare social media content about Common Voice. Please use the hashtag #CommonVoice. 


Before creating content please read the guidance for using Mozilla Common Voice Trademark 

To contribute a voice clip have to be 19 years or  have a guardians consent and supervision, please read the full Terms here.

How to take part

We have created some ideas you can remix, adapt or be inspired to create your own ideas for the social media campaign. On the Community Playbook, we have highlighted resources you can use to support the campaign.

After you post, share your posts with us on the common voice discourse.

 

Spread the word!

  • Join our movement to make Voice AI Work for Everyone
  • Common Voice is the world’s largest open voice dataset, making it possible for everyone to create and experiment with voice recognition technology

Idea 1: Including My Voice

How to

Self-record your thoughts on the questions “Can Alexa and Siri hear my voice?”

 

You might want to reflect on your language, your accent or the variant or dialect that you speak

 

We suggest using video-based or audio-based social media platform.

Calls to action

At the end of the video, highlight how you are raising your voice by contributing to Mozilla Common Voice.

 

Suggested text: “Contribute your voice to #CommonVoice”

Idea 2: #voicetechfail

Demonstrate when voice assistants or Automated Speech Recognition doesn’t recognise your first language

How to

Speak to a voice assistant or live caption service and either screen record or make a selfie video of the results.

 

We suggest using video-based or audio-based social media to share what you find

Calls to action

At the end of the video, highlight how you are raising your voice by contributing to Mozilla Common Voice.

 

Suggested text: “Let’s fight the fail, could you contribute to #CommonVoice ?”

 

Include a website link to commonvoice.mozilla.org/speak

Idea 3: Unique to Say

How to:

You can use an image, audio or video format to share your response to “What would you share online in your language that cannot be said in another language?”

 

Encourage people to think about how Voice AI should be able to communicate the nuances and cultural context of your language.

 

Calls to action

Suggested text: “Join our movement to make Voice AI work for everyone. #CommonVoice”

 

include a website link to commonvoice.mozilla.org

 

Social Media Platforms

We suggest using image, text, audio or voice-based social media

Idea 4: Powered by Voice

How to

Ask your audience “How many times have you used automated speech recognition?”

 

Either in a thread or in a image carousel, highlight examples of automated speech recognition in images.

 

Calls to action

Suggested text: Could you contribute to Common Voice and make automatic speech recognition available/better for [include language]?

 

Include a website link to commonvoice.mozilla.org/speak

Social Media Platform

We suggest using either image or text-based social media.