There is a Free and Open Source alternative to Forvo. com called “Lingua Libre”:
Forvo.com is a great resource for language learners. The website began in 2008 with a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 License. More than 5 million recordings were submitted with that “Open” License. However, recently they decided to suddenly change their License and make all the audios their private property with a new License that is incompatible with the “Commons License” principles.
Forvo.com basically “revoked” the Commons License and made everything proprietary and closed sourced.
Fortunately, there is a new FOSS alternative called “Lingua Libre” but few people know about it.
Would it be possible to publish a review about “Lingua Libre” to increase awareness about that FOSS Project ?
Lingua Libre is an important project for Countries like India with minority languages. Actually, there is an active community from India but more contributors are needed !
It would be great if you could make an unbiased review of the Website and ask readers to record their native languages !
Here you can see the list of languages and their number of recordings on Lingua Libre:
I know it’s an open source project, but if you are not interested in engaging with the community and just want the review out, then please contact Abhishek through a way of personal messaging, like, for example, e-mail.
