Neil Kirk
@drspeakmind.bsky.social
Reader in Cognitive (and MIND) Psychology with an interest in all things dialect and voice-y. Other interests include: the X-men, AI, the gym and doomscrolling. 🏳️🌈
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As synthetic voices become indistinguishable from real ones, DIGIT spoke with psychologist Dr Neil Kirk about how our instinct to trust our own accents could make way for deepfakes targeting not just individuals, but entire regions.
www.digit.fyi/psychology-b...
#deepfakes #AIvoices #AyeRobot
www.digit.fyi/psychology-b...
#deepfakes #AIvoices #AyeRobot
Too Authentic to be Synthetic: The Psychology Behind AI Voice Scams
As AI voices become eerily realistic, new research shows that the instinct to trust our own accents could make us more vulnerable to deepfakes
www.digit.fyi
October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
As synthetic voices become indistinguishable from real ones, DIGIT spoke with psychologist Dr Neil Kirk about how our instinct to trust our own accents could make way for deepfakes targeting not just individuals, but entire regions.
www.digit.fyi/psychology-b...
#deepfakes #AIvoices #AyeRobot
www.digit.fyi/psychology-b...
#deepfakes #AIvoices #AyeRobot
Here's a feature on my recent AI Voice work - really honoured to have been asked to talk about this! www.digit.fyi/psychology-b...
Too Authentic to be Synthetic: The Psychology Behind AI Voice Scams
As AI voices become eerily realistic, new research shows that the instinct to trust our own accents could make us more vulnerable to deepfakes
www.digit.fyi
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Here's a feature on my recent AI Voice work - really honoured to have been asked to talk about this! www.digit.fyi/psychology-b...
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🧠 Is your mindset making you more vulnerable to AI voice-based deception?
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
OSF
osf.io
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🧠 Is your mindset making you more vulnerable to AI voice-based deception?
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
🧠 Is your mindset making you more vulnerable to AI voice-based deception?
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
OSF
osf.io
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🧠 Is your mindset making you more vulnerable to AI voice-based deception?
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
I've got a new pre-print out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Vigilance towards AI voices can be nudged through a change in MINDSET
Thread below 👇
#AI #Voice #Cybersecurity #Fraud #Psychology 1/11
New achievement unlocked - delivering the oration for Brian Cox. I didn’t faint, nor did he use any of his famous catchphrases on me. Success!
July 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New achievement unlocked - delivering the oration for Brian Cox. I didn’t faint, nor did he use any of his famous catchphrases on me. Success!
Made another wee video about one of our recently published papers…
July 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Made another wee video about one of our recently published papers…
I’m on TikTok and Instagram @ drspeakmind - please give me a follow and see how well you can spot AI voices! 🗣️
June 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I’m on TikTok and Instagram @ drspeakmind - please give me a follow and see how well you can spot AI voices! 🗣️
“Enjoying” some time off work #ToughMudder
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“Enjoying” some time off work #ToughMudder
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🎓 Fully funded PhD at Abertay University & SIPR: Enabling People to Identify Deepfakes. £20,780/year, fees paid, starts Oct 2025. Use eye-tracking to research deepfake detection. Apply by 30 June 👉 www.abertay.ac.uk/about/workin... #PhD #Cybersecurity #Deepfakes
June 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🎓 Fully funded PhD at Abertay University & SIPR: Enabling People to Identify Deepfakes. £20,780/year, fees paid, starts Oct 2025. Use eye-tracking to research deepfake detection. Apply by 30 June 👉 www.abertay.ac.uk/about/workin... #PhD #Cybersecurity #Deepfakes
It’s always lovely to receive a “to me, love from me, well done on finishing your marking” present.
June 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It’s always lovely to receive a “to me, love from me, well done on finishing your marking” present.
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🚨New publication... Children's films contain innacurate gender stereotypes and these corresespond to children's (and adult's) implicit and explicit gendered associations.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping
Children acquire gender stereotypes at a young age and these subsequently influence cognition and behavior. Stereotypes may be learned through a child's direct observation of gender differences as we....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🚨New publication... Children's films contain innacurate gender stereotypes and these corresespond to children's (and adult's) implicit and explicit gendered associations.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read thread for more details...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read thread for more details...
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This might make some language communities more vulnerable to AI voice-based deception. Luckily I’ve been given some funding to investigate this further, so watch this space!
April 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This might make some language communities more vulnerable to AI voice-based deception. Luckily I’ve been given some funding to investigate this further, so watch this space!
I’m extremely chuffed my new paper “Eh? Aye!”: Categorisation bias for natural human vs AI-augmented voices is influenced by dialect” has just been published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artifical Humans.
(and not just because my best work is in the title!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(and not just because my best work is in the title!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Eh? Aye!”: Categorisation bias for natural human vs AI-augmented voices is influenced by dialect
Advances in AI-assisted voice technology have made it easier to clone or disguise voices, creating a wide range of synthetic voices using different ac…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’m extremely chuffed my new paper “Eh? Aye!”: Categorisation bias for natural human vs AI-augmented voices is influenced by dialect” has just been published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artifical Humans.
(and not just because my best work is in the title!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(and not just because my best work is in the title!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Never knew hearing a Drag Queen play a medley of 90s dance hits on the saxophone could be so healing 🧘♂️
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Never knew hearing a Drag Queen play a medley of 90s dance hits on the saxophone could be so healing 🧘♂️
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I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...
Scholarship Under Autocracy
We Have Been Here Before
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...
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🗣️ Do you like the sound of your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Self-cues such as one's own name or face attract attention, reflecting a bias for stimuli connected to self to be prioritized in cognition. Recent evidence suggests that even external voices can elic...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🗣️ Do you like the sound of your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
🗣️ Do you like the sound of your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Self-cues such as one's own name or face attract attention, reflecting a bias for stimuli connected to self to be prioritized in cognition. Recent evidence suggests that even external voices can elic...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🗣️ Do you like the sound of your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
🤖 Would you use an AI clone of your voice in a video game, a personal voice assistant or even your Sat Nav?
Usually when I ask this question, most people say "no." But what if I told you that your brain is naturally wired to prefer your own voice?
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan.
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan.
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
Surround yourself with people who celebrate your wins.
In other news, I’m on the lookout for a new group of friends, preferably ones who are good at bowling 🎳
In other news, I’m on the lookout for a new group of friends, preferably ones who are good at bowling 🎳
February 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Surround yourself with people who celebrate your wins.
In other news, I’m on the lookout for a new group of friends, preferably ones who are good at bowling 🎳
In other news, I’m on the lookout for a new group of friends, preferably ones who are good at bowling 🎳
Reposted by Neil Kirk
Speech recognition systems struggle with accents and dialects, risking problems in critical fields like healthcare and emergency services. Imagine calling 911 and the AI used to screen out non-emergency calls can’t understand you.
A Spanish language professor explains:
A Spanish language professor explains:
‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others
Speaking with an AI bot can be amusing and even helpful – if it understands you. How well AIs do that is a matter of whose speech they’ve been trained on.
theconversation.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Speech recognition systems struggle with accents and dialects, risking problems in critical fields like healthcare and emergency services. Imagine calling 911 and the AI used to screen out non-emergency calls can’t understand you.
A Spanish language professor explains:
A Spanish language professor explains:
It was a beautiful morning for a walk along the Tay.
January 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It was a beautiful morning for a walk along the Tay.
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Cool study alert!
🚨Interested in accents, psychology, and voice technology? Well, I have just the preprint for you!
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
OSF
osf.io
January 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Cool study alert!
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🚨Interested in accents, psychology, and voice technology? Well, I have just the preprint for you!
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
OSF
osf.io
January 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨Interested in accents, psychology, and voice technology? Well, I have just the preprint for you!
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
🚨Interested in accents, psychology, and voice technology? Well, I have just the preprint for you!
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
OSF
osf.io
January 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨Interested in accents, psychology, and voice technology? Well, I have just the preprint for you!
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)
I'm delighted to share my latest research: "Accentuate the Self: Prioritization of Self-Associated External Voices is Enhanced by Accent Matching."
🧵A thread (1/12)