Crowd translator
Jonathan Ledlie, Billy Odero, Einat Minkov, Imre Kiss, Joseph H. Polifroni · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2010
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.