Custodians and midwives: the library of the future
Saturday May 28th, 2022
Custodians & Midwives: The Library of the Future provides research and analysis on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies at the National Library of Australia.
Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Writing,Cybernetics
Ken Behrens: A cybernetic detective story of algorithms, accents and augury
Saturday May 28th, 2022
How can cybernetics help us investigate the story behind a Canberra meme?
Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Writing,Cybernetics
Communities are systems: invited keynote for linux.conf.au 2022
Sunday February 13th, 2022
What can systems thinking teach us about building open source communities?
Keynote Speaking,Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Open source
We are the Ghost In the Machine – invited talk for #VALATechCamp
Wednesday April 21st, 2021
This invited talk for #VALATechCamp journeyed from Ghost in the Machine to how we ensure cyber-physical systems evolve safely, sustainably and responsibly.
DeepSpeech in 5 minutes or less
Saturday March 13th, 2021
This Lightning Talk from Canberra Python Users Group provided an overview of DeepSpeech speech recognition, which uses a seq2seq algorithm.
DeepSpeech PlayBook
Saturday March 13th, 2021
I developed the DeepSpeech PlayBook to demystify the process of training speech recognition models with Mozilla's DeepSpeech engine.
Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Open source
More choice less voice: The rise of voice interfaces and the decline of open source voice
Sunday January 31st, 2021
Voice is becoming ubiquitous. But the way voice has scaled means that our choice in voice technologies is constrained. Let's create voice for everyone, everywhere, in every language.
Keynote Speaking,Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Open source
Ensuring Black voices matter: Why your voice assistant is racist, and what you can do about it
Saturday September 19th, 2020
Does your voice assistant support multiple languages? At PyConAU 2020, Kathy Reid explores why not - and how we can fix it.
Keynote Speaking,Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Open source
Private By Design: Free and Private Voice Assistants
Tuesday March 17th, 2020
This article for Make: Magazine explored private and open source voice assistants, split by the layer of the voice stack. Recommendations were made around which tool was most useful for which type of user - ie beginner or advanced.
Professional layout design with Scribus
Saturday February 1st, 2020
This tutorial, from linux.conf.au 2020 at the Gold Coast, provides an introduction to professional layout design with Scribus, an open source desktop publishing tool.