TWB Voice Platform: Donate your voice, make a difference

TWB Voice is a platform owned by CLEAR Global/Translators without Borders, which is designed to collect voice recordings from many users. These recordings are used to create large voice datasets, which are essential for developing language models for language technology applications like text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition. The datasets, made up of recordings from tens or hundreds of voices, are also shared openly to support research and technology development for underrepresented languages. The primary goal of TWB Voice is to support the development of voice technology for marginalized language speakers. For millions of people worldwide, language barriers stop people from accessing digital services. By developing voice technology for underrepresented languages, we want to help bridge this gap, making digital tools and services more accessible. Central to this mission is data collection for these languages—an essential step in developing language technology. TWB Voice brings together the TWB Community, a global community of over 100,000 linguists, to contribute the data required to achieve this goal.