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FAQ: Why can't I re-host or share Common Voice datasets that I download from MDC?
By exclusively hosting Common Voice datasets on MDC, we are best able to govern and respect the wishes of contributors.
Mozilla Data Collective
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Common Voice 23.0 Live On Mozilla Data Collective
Common Voice 23.0 is now live – and available for download via Mozilla Data Collective. Mozilla Data Collective is a sister platform from the team behind Common Voice, designed to let dataset owners and creators offer their data on their own terms. Mozilla Data Collective was built in response to
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Mozilla Data Collective Alpha Goes Live
Mozilla Data Collective is now in live alpha, offering the Common Voice 23.0 datasets.
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FAQ: What is the MDC Public API?
The Mozilla Data Collective REST API provides a way for developers to access datasets from their own applications, using the programming language of their choice.
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FAQ: Can I get the Common Voice or other MDC datasets from other platforms like GitHub or Hugging Face?
Common Voice datasets are exclusively available through Mozilla Data Collective.
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Roadmap
We're excited to share a high-level roadmap for the Mozilla Data Collective platform, leading up to our 1.0 launch in early Q1 2026: September: Mozilla Data Collective Alpha Launch October: New Datasets Available November: Mozilla Data Collective Beta Launch * Dataset and datasheet on-boarding and upload flow * Feature
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FAQ: What is the long-term sustainability model for Mozilla Data Collective?
We ask for a 5% dataset access fee from downloaders of paid datasets and may offer additional other subscription capabilities in the future.
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FAQ: Who is behind Mozilla Data Collective?
We are backed and stewarded by Mozilla Foundation - the non-profit, movement-building, and philanthropy arm of Mozilla.
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FAQ: How does Mozilla Data Collective work?
We partner with organizations and individuals to make their data available through Mozilla Data Collective.
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FAQ: What is Mozilla Data Collective?
Mozilla Data Collective is a data platform for human agency and fair value exchange.
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Exciting News! Mozilla Data Collective
Over the last eight years, the Common Voice community has shared wishlists with us for ways to create, curate, and control their data that extend beyond our current platform capabilities. For example, supporting the collection and release of datasets under different licences to CC-0, and the ability to contribute datasets