Alice Ross

About

Researcher focusing on the 'human' side of human-computer interaction. Asks a lot of questions.

I am working towards a PhD at the University of Edinburgh (estimated dates: 2023-2027), supervised by Dr. Catherine Lai and Prof. Lauren Hall-Lew.

I gratefully receive funding from UK Research and Innovation and Centre for Technomoral Futures, and support from the Centre for Speech Technology Research.

Publications

• Alice Ross, Cliodhna Hughes, Eddie L. Ungless and Catherine Lai. 2025. Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men. In Interspeech 2025 (in press).
• Alice Ross, Ariadna Sanchez and Nina Markl. 2024. Beyond the binary: Limitations and possibilities of gender-related speech technology research. In IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop 2024, 526-532.
• Alice Ross, Martin Corley and Catherine Lai. 2024. Is there an uncanny valley for speech? Investigating listeners’ evaluations of realistic TTS voices. In Speech Prosody 2024, 1115-1119.

Research interests

• Users' experiences of synthesised speech and voice interfaces
• Feminist and anarchist HCI
• Disfluent, impaired and atypical speech
• Speech technology in language acquisition and development
• AI ethics, bias, accessibility, and digital exclusion
• Multimodal human communication, from gesture to memes