[nmstoker]

You seem to imply that Nvidia are paying for data that is freely available.

Anyone can use the Common Voice data within the terms of the license and NVIDIA contributing towards the continued gathering of data (that will continue to be made publicly available) won't change that.

It's a huge shame that Mozilla didn't continue the DeepSpeech project but Coqui is taking on the mantle there and there are plenty of others working on open source solutions too, all whilst the existence of CV will make a big difference to research, in the academic, commercial and open source spheres.

[robbedpeter]

Coqui is phenomenally good and well done, so this new data should lower the barrier to entry for the represented languages.