Mozilla Foundation launches open-source voice recognition engine called Common Voice. The Mozilla Foundation wants to collect at least 10,000 hours of voice recordings to train the engine. Common Voice is to provide an accessible voice recognition technology to ordinary developers who can’t afford to invest billions in Cortana-like technologies. Mozilla says it plans to release the Common Voice database into open source later in 2017. Users can contribute their voice to the database on the project’s website or read small pieces of text to train engine.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/mozilla-launches-the-first-open-source-voice-recognition-engine/