Media Interviews & Talks

Recent, select curation of Lewis-Jong media interviews, talks, workshops and panels.

Financial Times: Can AI help Africa close the development gap?

Machine learning could have transformative effects on developing economies and societies. But some fear a deepening digital divide.

Digital Public Infrastructure Summit - Egypt. AI as Public Infrastructure.

How can language data be scaled without scaling exploitative gig work or other poor labour practices? What data licensing and governance structures can really enable equitable access to innovation on an uneven playing field? 

MIT Tech Review: How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse.

Common Voice is open source, which means anyone can see what has gone into the data set, and users can do whatever they want with it for free.

Re:publica Berlin: Speak up! Provocative prototyping with Voice Assistants.

Exploring Decentralised Voice Assistant Futures through Speculative Design

NVIDIA GTC Developer Conferences: Unlocking Speech AI Technology for Global Language Users.

Voice-enabled technology is becoming ubiquitous. But many are being left behind by an anglocentric and demographically biased algorithmic world.

Mozilla Festival: Breaking the anglocentricism of the internet.

Hear about lived experiences of the anglocentric digital world, and what Common Voice has learned working to break that dynamic.