That is correct. The DeepSpeech project, https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech will use this data to train and validate open source / freely available speech to text models. The training data, along with the trained models will be made available for free to all users and researchers alike.

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> Read a sentence to help our machine learn how real people speak. Check its work to help it improve. It’s that simple.