How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/08/27/how-mozilla-is-crowdsourcing-speech-to-diversify-voice-recognition/
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 racial bias. For example, if you have an accent, or your native language is something other than English, chances are you won’t get what you’re asking for.