Common Voice is always growing, and we welcome all new languages. There are two components to adding a new language to Common Voice:
- Make sure it is localized
- Make sure there are sufficient sentences to read
These two things can occur simultaneously
In order for a new language to be activated on Common Voice, it must be at least 90% localized in that given language.
We use the Mozilla localization platform Pontoon to handle translations of the web interface. Use the project page to find your language community and help submit new translations. If your language is not available for translation on Pontoon, you can request for it to be added by submitting a new issue using the language requests template.
For more information on how Common Voice approaches language and accents, please refer to our language and accent strategy.
In order for a new language to be contributable on Common Voice, it must have at least 5,000 sentences available to be read. This is so we can ensure a diverse and balanced dataset and so that there isn't unnecessary repetition of the same phrases.
Please refer to SENTENCES.md for more information on how to contribute sentences.
To see the current progress of a language, please refer to the language stats page on the website.
For more information about the language lifecycle, refer to this Discourse post