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Voice Yields - Earn $20/h by just talking

Created on 26th April 2025

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Voice Yields - Earn $20/h by just talking

The problem oto solves

There is a global shortage of voice data for AI training.

  1. Out of approximately 7,000 languages worldwide, voice AI supports only around 150—meaning 98% of languages remain unsupported.
  2. Even in major languages like English, speech models still perform poorly with accents and dialects.
  3. 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

  1. We carefully explored the optimal physical design for a device that can seamlessly capture real-life daily conversations.
  2. We conducted demand validation by directly reaching out to consumers and AI companies through DMs and social media.
  3. We designed a tamper-resistant token distribution formula based on the rarity of conversations and languages.
  4. We developed a scalable and privacy-preserving method to manage the vast amount of daily conversation data collected from around the world.
  5. Smart Wallet integration

Tracks Applied (3)

AI

Our project directly addresses a fundamental bottleneck in the development of AI systems: the shortage of high-quality, ...Read More

Stablecoins

Our product is DePIN, but we plan to distribute stablecoins to users. This is an interesting aspect of our product and o...Read More

Consumer

This project offers a fully consumer-facing DePIN service that allows anyone with a smartphone to start earning simply b...Read More

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