3 papers
eess.AS2026
Beyond Utterance-Level Speaker Similarity: Perception-Aligned Segmental Evaluation of Accent in Speech Generation
Jinzuomu Zhong, Alice Ross, Catherine Lai +1
Utterance-level similarity ratings do not reveal where perceived accent differences occur in generated speech. We introduce a segmental evaluation protocol combining speaker and ac…
eess.AS2026
Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice
Alice Ross, Ariadna Sanchez, Elin Kanhov +2
This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexual empowerment and greater diversity in…
cs.CL2024
Beyond the binary: Limitations and possibilities of gender-related speech technology research
Ariadna Sanchez, Alice Ross, Nina Markl
This paper presents a review of 107 research papers relating to speech and sex or gender in ISCA Interspeech publications between 2013 and 2023. We note the scarcity of work on thi…