Maybe we could specifically target voice actors who convincingly voice children in animated stuff
Edit:
- There are already paid child actors, you could somewhat-manually collect their speech from e.g. movies and TV shows to have _something_
- Even if there's some copyright issue with distributing their audio directly, it's not clear (uncertain but dubious?) that a model trained on their audio would have any copyright concerns as long as it can't be used to reproduce the original audio
- What is Mozilla going to do if <1% of their dataset is already children who didn't put an age in? Is that a COPPA violation? There's even the defense of "an adult can sound like a child and we also don't know who this child is so how is it personal information" (I have no idea the usefulness of any of that)
Edit:
- There are already paid child actors, you could somewhat-manually collect their speech from e.g. movies and TV shows to have _something_
- Even if there's some copyright issue with distributing their audio directly, it's not clear (uncertain but dubious?) that a model trained on their audio would have any copyright concerns as long as it can't be used to reproduce the original audio
- What is Mozilla going to do if <1% of their dataset is already children who didn't put an age in? Is that a COPPA violation? There's even the defense of "an adult can sound like a child and we also don't know who this child is so how is it personal information" (I have no idea the usefulness of any of that)