How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition

The Next Web
By Cara CurtisAug 27, 2019, 8:30 am77 pts
The immediate future of human-machine interaction lies in voice control, what with smart speakers, home appliances, and phones listening for commands to do our bidding. But voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to gender and…

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