Voices across Birmingham
Earn
up to £40 by talking!
You’ve all been connected to automated telephone
systems which ask you to “press 1 for this” or “press 2 for that”… It would be so much better if talking to
a computer was like talking to another person.
Why do we want to record your speech?
To develop natural speech recognition systems we
need examples of how people really talk when they use the telephone. We want to record 200 hours of telephone
conversations between people who were born and live in the Birmingham region. We want recordings of speech which
represent all of the different communities in the city. The recordings will be stored anonymously
on a computer and used by universities and companies to develop better
speech recognition systems.
How does it work?
To make a call you begin by calling our
freephone number. You will be asked
to enter your PIN number (see below), followed by the number of the person
who you want to call. You will be
reminded to ask the person you are talking to to confirm that he or she is
happy to have the conversation recorded.
Then you will be connected.
The phone call is completely free from a land line, but your
mobile network may charge you to call free-phone numbers from your mobile
(you should check). All other parts
of the call are completely free for land-line or mobile users. In addition we will pay you 50p for each
minute call that we record. You can
make more than one call, up to a maximum of one hour in total. For a total of one hour of recordings we
will pay you £40. For more
details of payments and conditions click here. To find out how to make a call using the
Voices across Birmingham
system click here.
Do you want to volunteer?
To take part in ‘Voices Across Birmingham’ you
will need to register and get a PIN number.
You can do this in two ways:
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