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
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
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.
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
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.
Good, better, breast: building a sensing mastectomy prosthetic with open hardware – presentation at linux.conf.au 2020, Gold Coast
Saturday February 1st, 2020
This talk, from linux.conf.au 2020 at the Gold Coast, documents the development of SenseBreast - an open source sensing mastectomy prosthetic.