Alice Ross
@alice-ross.bsky.social
Linguist, anarchist, reader, overthinker, cat enthusiast. PhD student at CSTR, University of Edinburgh: I research speech technology and its social impacts.
ייִדיש אויך מעגלעך.
https://alice-ross.github.io/
ייִדיש אויך מעגלעך.
https://alice-ross.github.io/
Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
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Happy Monday! Here's me thinking about speech tech, voices, and death thanks to the lovely @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
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Happy Monday! Here's me thinking about speech tech, voices, and death thanks to the lovely @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
content notes: discussion of death, grief, online abuse
Text-to-speech voices as human remains — Centre for Technomoral Futures
Speech technology researchers worldwide are working on improving the smoothness and fidelity of text-to-speech towards the goal of accessible communication for all. However, TTS models are also being ...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Happy Monday! Here's me thinking about speech tech, voices, and death thanks to the lovely @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
content notes: discussion of death, grief, online abuse
Happy Monday! Here's me thinking about speech tech, voices, and death thanks to the lovely @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
content notes: discussion of death, grief, online abuse
PLEASE JOIN @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally Weds 19 Nov!
We are fighting to save @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Senior management are threatening staff with up to 1800 compulsory redundancies on top of the many recent redundancies and cuts that have already damaged our working and learning conditions.
We are fighting to save @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Senior management are threatening staff with up to 1800 compulsory redundancies on top of the many recent redundancies and cuts that have already damaged our working and learning conditions.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
PLEASE JOIN @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally Weds 19 Nov!
We are fighting to save @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Senior management are threatening staff with up to 1800 compulsory redundancies on top of the many recent redundancies and cuts that have already damaged our working and learning conditions.
We are fighting to save @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Senior management are threatening staff with up to 1800 compulsory redundancies on top of the many recent redundancies and cuts that have already damaged our working and learning conditions.
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩
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Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
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November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩
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In unrelated news one of my undergraduate tutees told me I was a "very nice tutor" today and I maybe got more job satisfaction from that moment than in the entire rest of my career to date? 🥹😭 tutoring is brilliant, marking not so much
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In unrelated news one of my undergraduate tutees told me I was a "very nice tutor" today and I maybe got more job satisfaction from that moment than in the entire rest of my career to date? 🥹😭 tutoring is brilliant, marking not so much
Good to see a decent turnout today in support of the 30 employees laid off by @rockstargames.com (my former employer!🍵) for union organising - bring back shame for those who still work there, didn't join the union and didn't join the rally honestly
The Scottish Greens stand with the dozens of workers sacked by @rockstargames.com for exercising their right to organise with @gameworkers.co.uk @iwgbunion.bsky.social
Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.
Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Good to see a decent turnout today in support of the 30 employees laid off by @rockstargames.com (my former employer!🍵) for union organising - bring back shame for those who still work there, didn't join the union and didn't join the rally honestly
Mask off union busting from my former employer? Disappointed but unfortunately not surprised 😒😒😒
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Mask off union busting from my former employer? Disappointed but unfortunately not surprised 😒😒😒
University of Edinburgh has est. £3bn in assets, pays our principal >£418,000/year on top of his mansion + tens of thousands in expenses, but is threatening compulsory staff redundancies and... reducing the availability of period products in one of the busiest student buildings? Embarrassing tbh
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
University of Edinburgh has est. £3bn in assets, pays our principal >£418,000/year on top of his mansion + tens of thousands in expenses, but is threatening compulsory staff redundancies and... reducing the availability of period products in one of the busiest student buildings? Embarrassing tbh
"Liberalism is fun the way VHS tapes are fun: the flaws of an obsolete tool become a nostalgic aesthetic." 🔥 from @theabigailthorn.bsky.social on performing trans womanhood as palatable within the cisnormative hellscape
I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
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Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes
Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:
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October 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Liberalism is fun the way VHS tapes are fun: the flaws of an obsolete tool become a nostalgic aesthetic." 🔥 from @theabigailthorn.bsky.social on performing trans womanhood as palatable within the cisnormative hellscape
LAVLANG! IN! EDINBURGH! 2026! 💜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🪻🦩💬✨
HI. It's me.
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
LAVLANG! IN! EDINBURGH! 2026! 💜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🪻🦩💬✨
Excited to talk to the Language Variation and Change research group on Monday about my ongoing work on style shifting and authenticity in trans speech! Join if you're around, UofE friends!
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October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Excited to talk to the Language Variation and Change research group on Monday about my ongoing work on style shifting and authenticity in trans speech! Join if you're around, UofE friends!
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THRILLED to be visiting the lovely Speech, Music & Hearing folks at KTH Royal Institute of Technology this week! So much cool work happens here (voice quality, gender-ambiguous TTS, gesture and interaction...) and what's more they have this GORGEOUS vowel formant synthesis machine from 1953, Ove 🤩
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
THRILLED to be visiting the lovely Speech, Music & Hearing folks at KTH Royal Institute of Technology this week! So much cool work happens here (voice quality, gender-ambiguous TTS, gesture and interaction...) and what's more they have this GORGEOUS vowel formant synthesis machine from 1953, Ove 🤩
Always antifascist. The crisis is capitalism. Scottish Parliament today.
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Always antifascist. The crisis is capitalism. Scottish Parliament today.
And @lavlang.bsky.social was a delight throughout - amazing keynotes and talks, wonderful people, great venue, genuinely inspiring work. I don't have a photo of me presenting (but promise I did) so it's represented by this corner of Manchester's Queer Lit bookshop which I visited, also lovely! 🏳️🌈🪻💜
August 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And @lavlang.bsky.social was a delight throughout - amazing keynotes and talks, wonderful people, great venue, genuinely inspiring work. I don't have a photo of me presenting (but promise I did) so it's represented by this corner of Manchester's Queer Lit bookshop which I visited, also lovely! 🏳️🌈🪻💜
Catching my breath after two wonderful conferences last week! This @interspeech.bsky.social Special Session on Queer & Trans Speech Science & Technology was a real highlight, honoured to be part of it - huge thanks to @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @ninamarkl.bsky.social and the other organisers! 💜
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Catching my breath after two wonderful conferences last week! This @interspeech.bsky.social Special Session on Queer & Trans Speech Science & Technology was a real highlight, honoured to be part of it - huge thanks to @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @ninamarkl.bsky.social and the other organisers! 💜
Heading to Rotterdam today for @interspeech.bsky.social 🤩 and the paper is out! 🎉 Thanks again to my coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social, @catlai.bsky.social, and to all the participants! The special session on queer + trans speech is on Monday afternoon. See you there?
ISCA Archive - Conveying Gender Through Speech: Insights from Trans Men
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August 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Heading to Rotterdam today for @interspeech.bsky.social 🤩 and the paper is out! 🎉 Thanks again to my coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social, @catlai.bsky.social, and to all the participants! The special session on queer + trans speech is on Monday afternoon. See you there?
Super grateful to be visiting the Forschungsbereich Mensch und Maschine / Center for Humans and Machines this week in their incredibly cool home @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🤩 huge thanks for all the good thoughts and questions at the lab meeting today!
August 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Super grateful to be visiting the Forschungsbereich Mensch und Maschine / Center for Humans and Machines this week in their incredibly cool home @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🤩 huge thanks for all the good thoughts and questions at the lab meeting today!
V proud to say I'll be presenting our work on trans men's vocal style-shifting and metalinguistic awareness next month at LavLang 31 @lavlang.bsky.social!🪻🌈💬
If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too!
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If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too!
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Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, 20th-22nd August, 2025
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
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July 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
V proud to say I'll be presenting our work on trans men's vocal style-shifting and metalinguistic awareness next month at LavLang 31 @lavlang.bsky.social!🪻🌈💬
If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too!
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If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too!
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I think this is the biggest screen my work's ever been shown on (...so far?!) #UKIS2025 at University of York last week. It was wonderful hearing about the varied and inspiring work everyone's been doing - especially on York's own YorVoice project 💬💜
June 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I think this is the biggest screen my work's ever been shown on (...so far?!) #UKIS2025 at University of York last week. It was wonderful hearing about the varied and inspiring work everyone's been doing - especially on York's own YorVoice project 💬💜
Excited (and also nervous) to present our project on trans men's vocal style-shifting at UK and Ireland Speech next week 🥳 I'll be in Oral Session A, on Monday afternoon, please be nice if you're there 🙂↕️
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June 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Excited (and also nervous) to present our project on trans men's vocal style-shifting at UK and Ireland Speech next week 🥳 I'll be in Oral Session A, on Monday afternoon, please be nice if you're there 🙂↕️
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"classifications do not just describe people’s experiences of the world but normatively construct the world they claim to describe": the great @kevinguyan.bsky.social writes about 'inclusion' and what gets flattened, miscategorised, made incomprehensible or just left out
Classification systems and admin tools might not sound all that exciting — but they're at the forefront of the fight for LGBTQ equalities!
📝 In this blog post, I introduce the idea of a Rainbow Trap: a hollow form of inclusion where queer people are forced into boxes not of their choosing.
📝 In this blog post, I introduce the idea of a Rainbow Trap: a hollow form of inclusion where queer people are forced into boxes not of their choosing.
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"classifications do not just describe people’s experiences of the world but normatively construct the world they claim to describe": the great @kevinguyan.bsky.social writes about 'inclusion' and what gets flattened, miscategorised, made incomprehensible or just left out
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“In the Colony of Blooded Eyes: A Trilogy on Working Conditions as a Content Moderator in Germany” is a raw and honest account by Sakine Mohamadi Bozorg on the realities faced by migrant content moderators in Germany.
May 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“In the Colony of Blooded Eyes: A Trilogy on Working Conditions as a Content Moderator in Germany” is a raw and honest account by Sakine Mohamadi Bozorg on the realities faced by migrant content moderators in Germany.
Delighted to say I'll be presenting my work on 'Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men' at @interspeech.bsky.social 2025! Huge thanks to my excellent coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social and @catlai.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🗣️💜
May 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Delighted to say I'll be presenting my work on 'Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men' at @interspeech.bsky.social 2025! Huge thanks to my excellent coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social and @catlai.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🗣️💜
"There is an island of strangers in Westminster. Most of them have never known the bonds that strangers can form."
Richard Lighten's beautifully written response to Starmer rjaylighten.substack.com/p/an-island-...
Richard Lighten's beautifully written response to Starmer rjaylighten.substack.com/p/an-island-...
An Island of Strangers
In response to Keir Starmer
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May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"There is an island of strangers in Westminster. Most of them have never known the bonds that strangers can form."
Richard Lighten's beautifully written response to Starmer rjaylighten.substack.com/p/an-island-...
Richard Lighten's beautifully written response to Starmer rjaylighten.substack.com/p/an-island-...
i am so weary of this discourse
April 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
i am so weary of this discourse