Why on Earth would anyone use an app for this when mobile browsers work perfectly well for adding audio to Common Voice?
We could possibly give the developer the benefit of the doubt that they're not doing anything inappropriate with the data but frankly why pass your data through a third party that's not part of the project.
And why install an app requiring access to your shared local storage? The GitHub repo claims the website an animations are slow which sounds like BS to me. It works fine on a five year old phone I use for submitting.
Just contribute here if you're so inclined, much more sensible:
The app has a few nice features the website doesn't have, such as changing the speed during validation. It always surprises me as well, but many people hate to use web apps on mobile. I don't really know why, they simply ask for an app and refuse to use a browser.
You aren't distinguishing the projects correctly. The CV project isn't the same as the DeepSpeech project (even though they were related).
And your point makes little sense, because if the site was not working how could the app get voice data into the project. I've had some involvement with these projects over the years so I'm not just firing off arm-chair comments on this. They wouldn't have been able to add this new voice data if the site was under developed as you imply.
We could possibly give the developer the benefit of the doubt that they're not doing anything inappropriate with the data but frankly why pass your data through a third party that's not part of the project.
And why install an app requiring access to your shared local storage? The GitHub repo claims the website an animations are slow which sounds like BS to me. It works fine on a five year old phone I use for submitting.
Just contribute here if you're so inclined, much more sensible:
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en