Wikispeech/Involvement

Get involved in Wikispeech!

Do you want to get involved in the work with Wikispeech?

Wikispeech will not work without the work of volunteers such as you. Wikimedia volunteers will be crucial to help implement, develop, evaluate and improve the beta feature. For adding new languages and voices to, and improving the functions of, Wikispeech, efforts by you and others will mean everything.

This page will be the gathering place for involvement in the project. Coordination, collaboration and communication will start from here. Add your name below, and you will be updated with all information you need to take part!

I want to be involved!

If you want to support or engage with this project, please sign with your username below. We will keep you updated on major developments in this project.

User talk:Eric Luth (WMSE) se.wikimedia.org
User talk:Marajozkee meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Ivanhercaz meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:ZI Jony meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:WikiLucas00 meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Ainali sv.wikipedia.org
User talk:Alexcalamaro meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Kaizenify meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:So9q meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:psychoslave meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:DDJJ nl.wikimedia.org
User talk:Robin van der Vliet meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Bicolino34 meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Lingnerd meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Shahadusadik meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Hogü-456 meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Dnshitobu meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Alhassan Mohammed Awal meta.wikimedia.org
User talk:Prototyperspective meta.wikimedia.org (see c:Help:Spoken Wikipedia using AI)

How can I be involved?

There are several possibilities for involvement in the Wikispeech project. In the beginning, communication and support will be most important, but the more the project proceeds, the more possibilities there will be. The red links below will become blue when the time has come!

Ways to be involved (in time order)

Give and show your support to Wikispeech. Read more!
Take part in the evaluation of the beta function. Read more!
Lead conversations and communications evaluating the beta function. Read more!
Communicate to external partners about Wikispeech, either to inform or to involve. Read more!
Join reference groups on Wikispeech, with discussions on how to improve, develop and spread Wikispeech. Read more!

Endorsement

More than a dozen of people gave their explicit support already when the project started back in 2016, as an important way of, as one supporter put it, making "Wikipedia accessible to more people".
A proposal for the Community Wishlist got more than 20 supporters, with a proposal that in practice is what Wikispeech would be achieving.