Alice Ross
Doctoral Researcher in Speech Technology
CDT in NLP
, Cohort 2023, University of Edinburgh
Member of the
Centre for Speech Technology Research
MSc Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, 2022
About
Researcher focusing on the 'human' side of human-computer interaction. Asks a lot of questions.
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