Voice Data Collection - France and Overseas Territories

What does the project involve? The objective of this project is to collect voice recordings from native French speakers to improve voice assistant technologies. Task description: For this project, we are looking for a wide variety of native French speakers (from France and overseas territories) with various regional accents. Participants will record short activation phrases and scripted utterances typically used during interactions with a voice assistant, following the provided instructions. Who can participate in the study? To participate, you must meet the following conditions: Be 18 years of age or older. Be born and live in France or overseas territories. Be a native French speaker, from any region of France or overseas territories. Have a good command of English, as all project instructions will be in English. Be able to use a mobile phone for this project. Be able to use a wired headset or the device's microphone to record phrases. Have access to a quiet indoor environment to perform the recordings. Notes: As part of this project, we are looking for participants from specific demographic groups to help develop unbiased technology that is representative of everyone. Some groups are already full, but we are still looking for male voices with Northern, North-eastern, South-western accents and more.