Women’s voices needed - £15 for 15 mins of your time

[MotherSquirrel]

I’m working on a UK voice recognition software project and am very keen to ensure we have enough women’s voices (of all races and all regional UK accents) in the mix, as I know AI has in the past been trained on predominantly male white voices, meaning we are not always heard by voice assistants/customer service bots. See, for example: https://hbr.org/2019/05/voice-recognition-still-has-significant-race-and-gender-biases

Can you help by spending 15 mins reading instructions and recording your voice via two short phone calls? As a thank you there is a £15 voucher for each person who takes part. You can register here
https://forms.office.com/e/NWhFW7VYGD

Any questions, please ask and I’ll do my best to answer.

What is background and who are you working for? I see you are a first time poster

The company is Websters International and you’re right, I’m a first-time poster. I’m a mum of two who has observed but never posted before - I guess I’m a lurker. I can understand you might have concerns about it being my first post. I figured the Mumsnet users are probably majority female and really do want to ensure we get lots of female voices to help train this voice recognition software, hence posting here.

Thanks very much - glad you enjoyed it. I’ll contact you if anything similar comes up.