oto
Voice Yields - Earn $20/h by just talking
The problem oto solves
There is a global shortage of voice data for AI training.
- Out of approximately 7,000 languages worldwide, voice AI supports only around 150—meaning 98% of languages remain unsupported.
- Even in major languages like English, speech models still perform poorly with accents and dialects.
- Voice AI systems are still unable to engage in human-level natural conversation.
All of these limitations stem from a fundamental lack of high-quality, diverse training data.
One notable initiative is Mozilla Common Voice, which treats voice as a public good. However, it still falls short in terms of dataset volume and diversity.
We aim to address this problem by building on the public-good model and introducing DePIN-style token incentives to accelerate the creation and sharing of diverse, real-world voice data at scale.
Therefore, we focus on a big and real problem and try to solve it with crypto.
An interesting aspect of our product is:
The people who speak unsupported languages are often the same people who would benefit most from financial rewards.
So we're not just helping AI get smarter. We're also creating a new way for these communities to earn.
And long-term, we plan to turn these voice datasets into a public good.
Our Vision
Turning the world’s conversations into data
What if every conversation in the world could be turned into data—what can we do then?
Challenges I ran into
- We carefully explored the optimal physical design for a device that can seamlessly capture real-life daily conversations.
- We conducted demand validation by directly reaching out to consumers and AI companies through DMs and social media.
- We designed a tamper-resistant token distribution formula based on the rarity of conversations and languages.
- We developed a scalable and privacy-preserving method to manage the vast amount of daily conversation data collected from around the world.
- Smart Wallet integration
Tracks Applied (3)
AI
Stablecoins
Consumer
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