Mozilla hopes to change what it views as tech companies’ growing monopoly of data and create competition with its new project called Common Voice, The Verge reports. Major tech companies get a lead in artificial intelligence thanks to their ability to gather large amounts of data, the report states, and in response, Common Voice is experimenting with an alternative by asking volunteers to donate data and build an open-source voice-recognition system. Sean White, vice president of emerging technology at Mozilla, explains, “Currently, the power to control speech recognition could end up in just a few hands, and we didn’t want to see that.” 
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