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Tired of missing or postponing meetings due to lack of interpreters and having to adjust my schedule to theirs. I’m leaning more on automatic speech recognition—thinking fast, typing even faster. It’s a trade-off, but one I’m mostly happy to make if it gives me independence.

.Financial Times reports about the need for representation and leadership of disabled people in technology design - featuring our recent paper on deaf leadership in sign language AI research. on.ft.com/4feetCt

Excited to be at University of Zurich Department of Computational Linguistics in November to participate in a discussion about ethical aspects of sign language AI.

🔥New paper with Robin Angelini and @katta_spiel🔥 What would technologies look like if they centred around the experiences and desires of deaf people? DeafWatch as a starting point for new ways of thinking about technology from deaf-centred perspectives. bit.ly/4hgC2fX

Congratulations to colleagues @drcastone Christian Rathmann and Jeremie Segouat for securing funding for this important project on deaf interpreters! bbc.com/news/articles/…

1. Here are my thoughts on the pros and cons of staying on this platform. Pro: We were here long before Musk took it over. We built this. Con: He has used our creation to help elect a far-right autocrat, and build his own grim political career. 🧵

New publication out in @JournalofSocio1: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Check out the full issue.

Hot off the press and now available to order! International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator & Interpreter Education. Co-edited by me, Dr. Stacey Webb, PhD & Robert Adam & published by Gallaudet University Press. gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/I/Intern…

For our chapter in this volume, Robin Angelini, @katta_spiel and I interviewed deaf and hearing professionals involved in sign language machine translation about their perspectives on the development of signing avatars. Happy to see this out!

Deaf-hearing comparisons in research have been bothering me for a long time. Good to see this issue getting the attention it deserves!