common-voice VS SSMLParser

Mozillas Common Voice Project (https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/) is creating an open dataset for many minority languages to make it easier to support them in STT systems. If you speak one of these languages please consider donating a few minutes of your voice.

> it was not at all obvious to me there was some way of speeding up getting a language in the first place.

Yeah, that's the biggest failing of Common Voice in my opinion. Getting a new language up to speed could be much improved by simply adding a few links to documentation, but even the existing links are broken, which I reported in March 2022... https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice/issues/3637

> I have no interest in wasting time contributing to a UI translation I actively don't want to be subjected to

Translating the UI may still help you get other people to record, even if you don't want to use it yourself.

> I'll see if I can submit some sentences at least

If you want to go faster, there's also a project to extract sentences from Wikipedia etc. in small doses Mozilla's lawyers and Wikimedia's lawyers have agreed are fair use. I think you'd only need to define how Norwegian Bokmål separates sentences. (E.g. after a period but not if it's a common abbreviation like "etc." in the preceding sentence.)

There is a lot of TTS and SST development going on (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS; https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech; https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice). That is the only way they work: Contributions from the wild.

Since you're interested in STT and TTS, let me just plug in Mozilla's Common Voice, a way for everyone to contribute to an open source data set for STT. You can record yourself or verify other people's recordings!

[커먼보이스 전자우편](mailto:[email protected]) || Common Voice || Korean Language Homepage || FAQs || Speaking Aloud and Reviewing Recordings || Sentence Collector || NVidia/NeMo

How can it be used for transcription?

In their website I only see an interface for either uploading audio or submitting transcriptions:

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/es

The Github repo they mention (https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice) seems to be just that sample collection software. I do not see where I can download the software to transcribe audio.

A practical example: in the speech community, getting good results on datasets such as TIMITwould not be revolutionary, since it's super small and very old. On the contrary, things like Common Voice (which is constantly crowd-sourced) would be much more impactful. Just my two cents :)

I even wrote an SSML parser in JavaScript https://github.com/guest271314/SSMLParser to prove the lack of SSML support in Web Speech API is not a technical difficult, rather a failure in the specification and a lack of will to implement by browser vendors How is a complete SSML document expected to be parsed when set once at .text property of SpeechSynthesisUtterance instance?.

Navigate to https://guest271314.github.io/SSMLParser/, click "Start speech synthesis". What happens?

I implemented SSML parsing using JavaScript https://github.com/guest271314/SSMLParser just to demonstrate the requirement is possible.

I can run this page https://guest271314.github.io/SSMLParser/ without an issue.

I implemented SSML parsing in JavaScript by hand for Web Speech API per SSML specification https://github.com/guest271314/SSMLParser, where the Web Speech API nor Firefox nor Chrome or Chromium browsers (Google does implement SSML parsing as a service https://github.com/guest271314/GoogleNetworkSpeechSynthesis) have implemented SSML parsing.

I did using JavaScript https://github.com/guest271314/SSMLParser.

For parsing SSML https://github.com/guest271314/SSMLParser there is the specification, which I implemented, to demonstrate the requirement is possible; there was and still is in that matter, simply a lack of will to implement in the browser. Google would rather try to get you to sign up for their cloud products.

Thus, I wrote https://github.com/guest271314/SSMLParser and https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng.