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by punchingwater 2878 days ago
Just to add my two cents (I work for Mozilla on Common Voice): without help from linguists, Common Voice would have made some very different and very bad decisions about all sorts of things like: accents, dialect segmentation, corpus curation, licensing, and many other things. Linguistics were absolutely instrumental. We tried to thank some of them at the end of our blog post: https://medium.com/mozilla-open-innovation/more-common-voice...