Volunteer agreement
Version 2026-10
Draft: awaiting approval
This text is a draft. It is not yet approved and is not legal advice. The open questions below are for the operator to answer before it is published.
- The whole text (D-12): a first draft from the points in the volunteer plan. Confirm the points and the wording.
- After the end: the draft says points 1, 2 and 5 still hold for anything the computer received. Confirm.
- A new version: the draft says a changed text gets a new version number. Should the app then ask each enrolled computer to accept it again (T-132)?
- Liability and the law that applies: the draft says nothing about either. Whether to add anything is the operator's to decide.
LinguaForge sends volunteers' computers short pieces of a dub. Some pieces carry a short clip of a speaker's voice and part of the translated text of their talk. The speakers trust the project with these. This agreement is what you promise in return.
You accept it in the app when you enrol your computer, and the app records the version for that computer. Ticking the box on the invite request form says only that you have read it.
What you agree to
- Process jobs only through the app. Do not run a job, or any part of one, with other software, and do not change the app to do it.
- Keep, extract or reuse no audio or text. The voice clip, the text and the takes your computer makes are for the job and nothing else. Do not copy them, save them anywhere else, share them, or use them for anything else, such as training a model.
- What your computer makes is made for the project. The takes, and the dubs made from them, are made for the project, to be published with the talks. You keep no rights in them: you give all rights in them to the project.
- The takes are the voice of a real person. They are synthetic speech that copies a real speaker's voice, made with that speaker's consent and only for this purpose. Treat them with the same care as the clip.
- No impersonation. Do not use the app, a clip or a take to make anyone seem to say what they did not say, or to pass yourself off as a speaker, as the project or as another volunteer.
Ending it
- The project may remove your computer from the pool at any time.
- You may stop at any time: pause the app or remove it.
- Either side may end this agreement at any time. Points 1, 2 and 5 still hold for anything your computer received.
Changes
If this text changes, it gets a new version number.
What the app sends and what the site shows: see Privacy. How the speakers agree: see Speakers' consent.