Talk: Democratizing AI Through Open Data

Cognitive Systems Institute Talks:

17 May 2018: 10:30 AM, ET  Access Instructions below.

Talk by: Michael Henretty

Title: “Finding our Common Voice: Democratizing AI through Open Data”      Mozilla

Abstract:  

  Michael Henretty is an engineer and open innovation strategist working for Mozilla from Berlin. He is currently leading the Common Voice project, Mozilla's initiative to crowdsource a public dataset of human voices to be used in open speech technology. In a former life, Michael was a video game developer and designer. 

The future of the Web is built on voice: voice recognition tools, speech directed commands, as well as civic movements. If we want to work towards a more inclusive, people enabled, and empowered future for the Internet as a global public resource, we need to act now. The challenge is complex, it starts with the training data used for speech algorithms, is connected to technical challenges for compatible code and systems, and finds its expression in continuously changing political contexts.... 

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