Happy to have contributed to this!
07.03.2026 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to have contributed to this!
07.03.2026 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re great, the R packages saved me so much time during my Diss!
02.03.2026 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bristol and a lot of the South West is underrepresented as well, aside from the odd paper here and there. There’s some really interesting levelling of the traditional dialect happening down here!
26.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Very happy to have been a part of this!
03.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congrats Matthew!
06.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week I had the privilege of presenting my recently submitted MSc dissertation work at #uklvc15, my first major conference where I met some incredible people who had some very inspiring comments.
Thank you to @clrnance.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to present at such short notice!
Tell me you don't understand accent bias, without telling me you don't understand.
Assuming someone is an 'entitled, snobby plonker' because of their RP ('plummy') accent *is* accent bias...!
The training we're leading addresses *all* types of accent bias.
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:
