“There’s something about the way you look at me”: Sexualised synthetic personas encode gendered power asymmetries through voice
Conference proceedings talk, Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Talks, panels, and presentations
The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech
Conference proceedings talk, Sociolinguistics and AI International Conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech
Conference proceedings talk, The 8th Weizenbaum Conference, Berlin
[Presentation slides are available here](https://canva.link/1zoh3en5d5gmejq.
The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech
WIP project presentation, The Centre for Technomoral Futures, Edinburgh
Materiality of Data: Data gaps, data harms, and data work
Lecture, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Invited guest lecture for ‘AI in the Creative Industries’ module
Jewish perspectives on AI
Discussion, Newcastle Reform Synagogue, Newcastle upon Tyne
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Panel discussion, AI Ethics and Society, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Chaired discussion with Dr. Nazanin Andalibi and Dr. Oliver Haimson on the realities of doing gender, emotion and AI work
Gender, style-shifting and authenticity in speech: insights from trans speakers
Talk, Language Variation and Change Research Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Identity and ideology in commercial TTS
Talk, Division of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH) Seminar at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men
Conference proceedings talk, Lavender Languages and Linguistics 31, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men
Conference proceedings talk, Interspeech Special Session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology, Rotterdam
With Cliodhna Hughes
Ideology and discrimination in commercial text-to-speech
Talk, Center for Humans and Machines lab, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men
Conference proceedings talk, UK and Ireland Speech, University of York, York
Speaking Out: Three projects related to speech and gender
Talk, Centre for Speech Technology Research Talks, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Beyond the binary: Limitations and possibilities of gender-related speech technology research
Talk, Gender and Social Cognition reading group, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
With Ariadna Sanchez
Ideology, power and bias in the design of ‘human-like’ synthetic speech
Poster, ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin, Berlin