Contribute with Community

Building Voice Dataset requires collaboration, trust and most important understanding of language community issues.

As your language participates in Common Voice we encourage you to take part in community building, you can bring interpersonal or/and technical skills to support the growth of your language on Common Voice. For example:

Start and take part in discussions on Community Social Platforms
Host events with Mozilla Resource Rep Funding
Contribute Open Source Code
Create with other contributors a Langauge Specific Community Building Strategy

Common Voice contributors are expected to uphold you to abide by Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines (CPG). Everyone should feel comfortable and supported, if at any point you experience violations of the CPG please report and we will invesigate and support you.

Programmes and Resources

Common Voice Languages Reps Create an explicit avenue for representatives of language communities to advocate for their language community’s needs with the Common Voice Product Team
Community Workshops are virtual calls that provides practical tips and resources you can us to run events and access funding.
Community Assets Drive hosts material you can use and remake from graphics to postcards.

Using the Common Voice Trademark

“Mozilla” and “Common Voice” are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation and are subject to Mozilla’s trademark policy. But you can of course use these terms to describe and refer to Common Voice when organizing community activities. The project needs community involvement to grow and succeed!

So you should feel free to spread the word about Common Voice. Just be careful not to use Mozilla trademarks in a way that would give the impression that Mozilla itself is organizing an independent community event or resource. For example, the name of your community website or event should prominently include your own group name. The Esperanto and Dhivehi community sites are great examples. They refer to Common Voice but have their own identity.

Mozilla is happy to answer any questions you have about using Mozilla trademarks, you can email the team at trademark-permissions@mozilla.com, and cc commvoice@mozilla.com

Playbook Pages

Localization: Translating project tools and material to be understood by contributors in their language
Text Corpus: Gathering, validating and processing public domain sentences
Voice Corpus: Recording and validating voice clips to create a public domain dataset
Communities: Connect with the variety of communities participating in Common Voice
Mobilization: Resources and tips for mobilizing your community
CC0 Waiver Process: How to secure a cc0 license for text corpus