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Ariadna

@scariadna.bsky.social
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PhD student and tutor at University of Edinburgh in speech technologies | Activities Team Coordinator at Young IT Girls | Lecturer at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@scariadna.bsky.social is off to Sydney this week to present this work 🛫🐨🗣️ @interspeech.bsky.social goers, do not miss the queer & trans speech science and technology session! wish I could be there for that and @steven-bird.bsky.social keynote 🥹
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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Proud to present the preprint of our @interspeech.bsky.social accepted paper: exploring the personas invoked by "flirty" and "temptress" (Elevenlabs' labels, not ours!) AI voices with @scariadna.bsky.social @elinkanhov.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social and Éva Székely 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.21366
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Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice
This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexual empowerment and greater diversity in gender expression, ...
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Ariadna @scariadna.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Looking forward to Interspeech ‘26! 🐨
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Cliodhna Hughes @greatlikecheese.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology! Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February. More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee... Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
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Special Session
While interest in queer voices has long been present in linguistics and speech processing, there has been a glaring lack of trans and queer voices in research on queer speech science and technology, w...
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.
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Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
say it with me: image 👏🏻 generation 👏🏻 tools 👏🏻 enable 👏🏻 abuse 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 women 👏🏻 every 👏🏻 time 👏🏻
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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org
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Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
no one should ever have to cross the channel on a tiny boat
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
in honour of interspeech this week, i’d like to issue a reminder that everyone has an accent, and that’s beautiful, actually: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_... www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
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Christoph Minixhofer @cdminix.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I tried: “what sport should I pick up?” and for my original (male) voice it responded with “association football is the most popular sport in the UK”. For my female one… “oh, for a newbie? Something easy like […]” — Goes without saying that research into these biases is important. 2/2
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Christoph Minixhofer @cdminix.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A highlight at #interspeech so far: the “hear me out” show&tell in which you can check how the spoken language model Moshi responds based on if it’s your voice or a voice converted version to the opposite gender. Check it out here shreeharsha-bs.github.io/Hear-Me-Out/ 1/2
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Hear Me Out
Interactive evaluation and bias discovery platform for speech-to-speech conversational AI
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel: 

"Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.

Theo Von: Do you really?

Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.”

Von: Yeah.

Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Welp. ATI had already narrowed its focus to health, sustainability and security, but are now being told that health and sustainability are no longer legitimate public priorities for AI research, and that this is consistent what ‘the British public expects.’
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Ariadna @scariadna.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Very excited to share that our paper has been accepted to @interspeech.bsky.social 2025! 📢 Title: Can we reconstruct a dysarthric voice with the large speech model Parler TTS? 🔗 arXiv link: www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.04397 Looking forward to Rotterdam! 🇳🇱
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Can we reconstruct a dysarthric voice with the large speech model Parler TTS?
Speech disorders can make communication hard or even impossible for those who develop them. Personalised Text-to-Speech is an attractive option as a communication aid. We attempt voice reconstruction ...
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