The Trusted Voice Project
A multi-region coalition for ethically sourced, culturally representative voice data — so the communities whose voices are missing from AI become the people who anchor the data, the design, and the governance of how it is used.
The world speaks. The data barely listens.
Voice is how most of the world communicates — yet the voice data shaping AI today was overwhelmingly collected from a narrow slice of human speech: Anglophone, urban, Global-North-recorded.
The communities whose voices are missing are the same communities most exposed to the harms AI is producing, and least equipped to participate in the technologies it is creating. That gap is not a technical accident. It is a choice about whose voice counts — and it can be made differently.
A coalition, anchored by the people whose voices are at stake.
The Corporation for Public Interest Technology is incubating the Trusted Voice Project, bringing together regional voice-data efforts, language communities, civil-society organizations, and policy partners under a shared charter, methodology, and governance framework — with the conviction that the people whose voices are at stake should be the people who anchor the data, the design, and the governance of how that data is used.
A federated coalition
Global South regional partners, each retaining their own identity and operations, connected through a shared charter and a regular convening cadence.
A shared methodology
Voice-data methods released as a public good — capturing dialect, register, and linguistic texture, and built from day one to serve AI inclusion, cultural preservation, authentication, and synthetic-audio defense.
Standards & policy
A workstream that translates coalition learnings into transferable frameworks for election commissions, telecom regulators, central banks, and international standards bodies.
The connective infrastructure — not the owner of the voice.
The Corporation for Public Interest Technology anchors the project so regional efforts can contribute to, and benefit from, a shared Global South framework — without surrendering their independence.
Fiscal sponsor
A trusted home for funding, so resources reach the partners doing the work.
Legal home
The institutional standing that lets a multi-region coalition operate as one.
Ethical overseer
Consent, provenance, and community authority held to a public-interest standard.
Secretariat
The convening, coordination, and shared charter that keep the coalition coherent.
PRPamposh Raina
Advisor, Responsible AI · Project Lead
Led by Pamposh Raina.
The Trusted Voice Project is led by Pamposh Raina, Responsible AI Advisor at the Corporation for Public Interest Technology.
Build the coalition with us.
The Trusted Voice Project is currently in its foundational phase. We welcome conversations with regional partners, funders, and researchers who want to help anchor voice data in the communities it comes from.