37.2604, FYI: New Competition Alert: Lost in Transcription

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LINGUIST List: Vol-37-2604. Thu Aug 06 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.2604, FYI: New Competition Alert: Lost in Transcription

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Date: 06-Aug-2026
From: Mozilla Data Collective [ella.whitman at mozilladatacollective.com]
Subject: New Competition Alert: Lost in Transcription


New competition alert: Lost in Transcription
Most speech recognition tools are trained on "clean," monolingual
speech - but real conversations are messier and richer than that. This
challenge from the Mozilla Data Collective (backed by the Mozilla
Foundation) asks participants to build ASR models that can handle real
bilingual, code-switched speech in Spanish-English, Spanish-Nahuatl,
and Indonesian-Javanese.
$20,000 in prizes
Closes mid-September 2026
https://competitions.mozilladatacollective.com/competitions/1/lost-in-transcription/?utm_source=Mailing+List&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=August-Comp-Promotion&utm_id=MDC-Competition-Promotion-Email
If you work in ML, linguistics, or care about language technology that
actually serves underrepresented communities, this one's worth a look.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Translation




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