about $5 an hour per hour (paid to the speaker)
Rural Indian speakers recording speech data for Karya (supplier to Microsoft and Google)
Dated 4 Dec 2023Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“about $5 an hour to generate data”
Where it was read
Context (Thomson Reuters Foundation), checked 11 Oct 2026
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What it is about
Figures it counts in
- $24 per hour of workAudio and speech, paid to the people who make it, per hour of work