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  • common-voice

    Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.

  • Hmmm...interesting question. Also, I’m sorry to your brother’s wife because that sounds super annoying. And we’re not sure it’s really effective. Just because your brother asks Alexa to turn the lights on in funny ways, Alexa still knows that their lights are being turned on. And this could also help train Amazon’s Alexa AI to understand different voices and accents and sayings (check out our Common Voice project here). Unfortunately, there’s just not much transparency in AI these days to know of ways to help protect your privacy, as far as we can tell.

  • mycroft-core

    Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform.

  • welp, there's always an option

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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