Ariadna
@scariadna.bsky.social
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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📢 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/...
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/...
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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January 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
📢 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/...
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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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.
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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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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...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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say it with me: image 👏🏻 generation 👏🏻 tools 👏🏻 enable 👏🏻 abuse 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 women 👏🏻 every 👏🏻 time 👏🏻
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
say it with me: image 👏🏻 generation 👏🏻 tools 👏🏻 enable 👏🏻 abuse 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 women 👏🏻 every 👏🏻 time 👏🏻
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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
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
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.
www.responsiblenlp.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
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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no one should ever have to cross the channel on a tiny boat
"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
no one should ever have to cross the channel on a tiny boat
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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_...
www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
August 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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_...
www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
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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
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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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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/
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Check it out here shreeharsha-bs.github.io/Hear-Me-Out/
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Hear Me Out
Interactive evaluation and bias discovery platform for speech-to-speech conversational AI
shreeharsha-bs.github.io
August 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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
Check it out here shreeharsha-bs.github.io/Hear-Me-Out/
1/2
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
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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.’
Alan Turing Institute told to focus on defence or lose funding
Science secretary threatens to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited
Big story
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Science secretary threatens to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited
Big story
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Alan Turing Institute told to focus on defence or lose funding - Research Professional News
Science secretary threatens to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.’
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! 🇳🇱
📢 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! 🇳🇱
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 ...
www.arxiv.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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! 🇳🇱
📢 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! 🇳🇱