Data-driven approaches to language diversity
Thursday April 13th, 2023
A panel at NVIDIA's GTC conference in 2023 discussing data-driven approaches to language diversity, as applied to speech technologies.
Speech recognition through a cybernetic lens
Wednesday August 24th, 2022
A talk by National Library of Australia and ANU School of Cybernetics for National Science Week where Kathy Reid provides a cybernetic history of speech recognition.
Keynote Speaking,Data visualisation,Speech recognition,Cybernetics
Data visualisation of Mozilla Common Voice v9 dataset metadata coverage in Observable
Monday July 4th, 2022
Covers how accents are represented in voice data, such as BCP-47 and ISO-639 standards, and what challenges this presents for machine learning.
Emerging technology,Data visualisation,Open data,Speech recognition,Machine learning,Open source
Socially responsible representation of accents in voice data: Considerations for practitioners and policymakers
Monday July 4th, 2022
Covers how accents are represented in voice data, such as BCP-47 and ISO-639 standards, and what challenges this presents for machine learning.
Keynote Speaking,Emerging technology,Speech recognition,Machine learning
Data, decisions and dynamics
Monday July 4th, 2022
Data, decisions and dynamics was an invited keynote for VALA22 - Bring IT on!, in which Kathy Reid covered machine learning in libraries.
Keynote Speaking,Emerging technology,Machine learning,Cybernetics
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,Machine learning,Writing,Cybernetics,Speech recognition
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,Machine learning,Writing,Cybernetics,Speech recognition
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.