Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak. In addition to the Common Voice dataset, we’re also building an open source speech recognition engine called Deep Speech. Both of these projects are part of our efforts to bridge the digital speech divide. Voice recognition technologies bring a human dimension to our devices, but developers need an enormous amount of voice data to build them. Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary. We want to make voice data freely and publicly available, and make sure the data represents the diversity of real people. Together we can make voice recognition better for everyone.