Voice Playbook
The Tech Innovators Network Voice Playbook is a practical guide for building inclusive voice technologies that serve underrepresented languages. It provides a structured framework for collecting, managing, and sharing voice data through community-driven, ethical, and open approaches.
Developed with insights from projects such as the Africa Next Voices initiative, the Playbook empowers communities, technologists, and policymakers to collaborate in preserving languages, reducing digital inequality, and shaping the future of speech technology.
It is intended as both a reference manual and a living resource, evolving alongside the needs of the communities it supports.
Introduction
1.1 The Rise of Voice Technologies Voice has become one of the most powerful interfaces between h...
Overview
Purpose of the Voice Playbook This playbook provides practical, ethical, and scalable guidance fo...
MODULE 1
How to Use this Playbook
This playbook is for anyone who wants to collect voice data in an African language, whether the p...
PART I — BEFORE YOU COLLECT ANYTHING
1. Define Why You Are Collecting Voice Data Before recruiting anyone, answer: 1.1 What will the d...
PART II — DESIGN THE DATASET
5. Choose Scripted vs Unscripted Collection 5.1 Scripted Collection Participants read prepared se...