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Mozilla’s Common Voice now features 60 hours of speech datasets in eight new Indigenous languages

Details around the newest release of the Common Voice speech dataset, Common Voice 20

Building on our experience and lessons learned over the past 10+ years, we’re now exploring how to further strengthen and streamline our fellowships program to meet the changing needs of both existing leaders and the next wave of changemakers. And because openness is key to who we are as Mozilla, we’re sharing our early thinking on the future of fellowships even as our approach evolves.

In order to better support a globally distributed community of dataset users, developers, language activists and voice contributors the Common Voice team is launching a Discord server.

MozFest House Zambia was a celebration of collective action and solidarity

Explore the insights from MozFest House Zambia, where technologists, policymakers, and activists discuss AI's transformative potential and challenges in Africa.

We're designing the next era of technical grantmaking at Mozilla Foundation. And because we believe in working open, we’re sharing our thinking now, even as it is evolving.

Study of booming market shows how sharing and exploitation of health and biometric data fuels everything from insurance hikes to workplace discrimination

Research published today by Min’enhle Ncube from the University of Cape Town, notes that as maternal health AI solutions emerge, they risk replicating biases due to datasets that do not reflect culturally relevant practices and knowledge. Ncube’s research is supported by Mozilla as part of the Africa Mradi grants supporting interdisciplinary researchers investigating the impact of AI on communities in Eastern and Southern African regions.

True to our roots in open-source, we intend to go about the Foundation’s work transparently, learning and iterating in the open. Working openly isn’t just for products – it’s a set of principles we want to bring to everything we do, whether it’s advocacy or grantmaking or community-building.

10 Reasons I’m Already Packing for MozFest House Zambia

The Common Voice navbar will be changing to allow for a 2025 update that introduces Spontaneous Speech, a new mode of contribution and new dataset.