Kyrgyz Voice Technology Hackathon
Overview
The goal of the event is to spark innovation on Voice-enabled technologies for the Kyrgyz language. Over the course of four days, teams will compete and collaborate to create working solutions to the application of their choosing.
Time & Place
March 12-15, 2019 – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Tuesday // March 12th // AUCA, 4th floor, CH
- Wednesday // March 13th // AUCA, 4th floor, CH
- Thursday // March 14th // Ololohaus, Erkindik Street
- Friday // March 15th // AUCA, 4th floor, CH
Focus
We will focus on the following three broad subjects related to Voice technology:
- Core technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
- Applied technologies such as Voice Assistants and IoT connected devices
- Datasets (i.e. spoken corpora) required to build these technologies
Prizes
Hackathon
This hackathon is a competition, and the top two teams will be awarded prizes. Teams should not have more than five people.
- Each member of the top team will be awarded a Raspberry Pi 3B+, along with a 16G micro SD card.
- Each member of the second team will be awarded a mirco:bit computer, along with a 16G micro SD card.
Data collection sprint
The top three contributors to the data collection sprint will receive prizes:
- 1st prize: Mycroft Mk. I
- 2nd prize: Coral TPU Accelerator
- 3rd prize: Sparkfun Edge
How to participate
- Make a profile
- Screenshot your dashboard
- Send the screenshot in an email to
ctlt@auca.kg
- At the end of the hackathon take another screenshot and send it to the same page.
The screenshots should show how many minutes you have donated before and after.
Open
The organizers of this event firmly believe in Open Technology. This includes Open Source code, as well as Open Licensed Data.
This Github reposity serves as the main hub of information, code, and presentation slides for the event. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this repository are licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Code of Conduct
Be excellent to each other. Read the Code of Conduct.
Sponsors & Organizers
We thank our gracious sponsors and organizers, without whom this event would not have been possible. The Kyrgyz Voice Technology Hackathon is co-sponsored by Mozilla, the AUCA Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Ololohaus, and Эл-Сөздүк.
Links
- Common Voice: https://voice.mozilla.org
- DeepSpeech: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
- Common Voice Sentence Collector: https://common-voice.github.io/sentence-collector/#/
- Pontoon: https://pontoon.mozilla.org