Donate your voice so Siri doesn't just work for white men

Does Siri have trouble with your accent? A project is turning to crowdsourced voice donations to overcome this problem, and iron out some of the other inherent problems with voice recognition. Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa are trained on huge databases of recorded speech. But if those don't contain enough samples of a particular accent or dialect, the voice assistants will struggle to understand people who speak that way. So Mozilla – the foundation behind the Firefox web browser – is turning to crowdsourcing to create voice recognition systems that avoid these problems.