Crowd translator: on building localized speech recognizers through micropayments

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan Ledlie;Billy Odero;Einat Minkov;Imre Kiss;Joseph Polifroni

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research, Cambridge, MA;Nokia Research, Nairobi, Kenya;Nokia Research, Cambridge, MA;Nokia Research, Cambridge, MA;Nokia Research, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a method to expand the number of languages covered by simple speech recognizers. Enabling speech recognition in users' primary languages greatly extends the types of mobile-phone-based applications available to people in developing regions. We describe how we expand language corpora through user-supplied speech contributions, how we quickly evaluate each contribution, and how we pay contributors for their work.