[Kde-accessibility] Forvo - Useful for acoustic modeling?

[Simon Eichhammer]

Hi everyone,

I just scanned my bookmarks and found "Forvo".

It's a site featuring over 2 million user-recorded pronunciations in 306
languages.

English: 132,134 users, 103,573 pronunciations
German: 7,446 users, 240,545 pronunciations
Russian: 12,542 users, 139,312 pronunciations
Tatar: 115 users, 139,940 pronunciations
Portuguese: 13,018 users, 112,178 pronunciations

French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic: 50,000+ pronunciations

The license is as follows:

You are free to:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
- Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may
distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.

This could be useful for acoustic modeling.

Regards,
Simon Eichhammer
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