common-voice VS STT

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 :)

What has happened since then? I know Common Voice has come and gone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Voice https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT

And I've seen some neural approaches too

No idea where to look for comparisons though.

I basically just used coqui stt https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT

This speech-to-text works well: https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT. openai's "whisper" is probably better but I haven't tried it: https://towardsdatascience.com/transcribe-audio-files-with-openais-whisper-e973ae348aa7

I use two SST to live-translate audio that I listen to so I can look back (in paragraph form) to see things that I or the youtube has previously said: https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT https://github.com/ratwithacompiler/OBS-captions-plugin

I did have to install Coqui STT and go-asticoqui manually before i was able to run Chipper.

What do you use as STT? I have heard good things about coqui (https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT) and will use it for my Assistant-build.

If anyone is looking for a maintained version of DeepSpeech, checkout Coqui's repositories for STT and TTS. Coqui is lead by the engineers that used to work on DeepSpeech at Mozilla.

Link: https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT