EM Lewis-Jong

E.M. is the director for Common Voice, a Mozilla project to enable communities around the world to create NLP datasets in their own languages. At 125+ languages and 30,000+ hours, it is the largest public participation Speech dataset in the world. EM has spent a decade working on ethical technologies, with a particular focus on platforms that centers around community engagement, spanning private sector start ups and philanthropy. His doctoral research in human-centered computing focuses on conversational AI. He studied at the University of Oxford, and has been a technical advisor for Lacuna Fund, Data Futures Lab, Moz Tech Fund, and Global PPP Funds.
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Posts by EM Lewis-Jong

Conversational AI

Unlocking Speech AI Technology for Global Language Users: Top Q&As

Voice-enabled technology is becoming ubiquitous. But many are being left behind by an anglocentric and demographically biased algorithmic world. Mozilla Common... 10 MIN READ