Clark, L.M.H.

• Creating a trustworthy model for always-listening voice interfaces 2019

  Funding provided by Mozilla Research

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College Dublin

  June 2017 - September 2019

• Researcher, Nottingham University

  May 2016 - July 2017

• PhD, Nottingham University

  October 2012 - May 2016

• Guest Lecturer, University College Dublin

  2019 - 2021

Humans are starting to respect machines at work (2020). Tonya Hall & ZDNet.

Why do we gender AI? Voice tech firms move to be more inclusive (2020). The Guardian.

Smart speakers: Are you being fooled as technology advances? (2019). BBC Wales News.

Sounding too human (2019). Rhifyn 23 Inch Magazine.

Voice assistant technology is in danger of trying to be too human (2019). The Conversation.

Speech Technology and Synthesis with Leigh Clark & Benjamin R. Cowan (2019). Irish Tech News.

• Mind the Gap: Discussing the Role of Humanness in Speech Technology Design.

  December 2019

  Google, Kings Cross, London

• Menace of mimicry: how humanlike should our speech technology be?

  December 2019

  Swansea University

• Conversational User Interfaces.

  November 2019

  Dagstuhl seminar series on Conversational Search

• The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes & Challenges.

  February 2019

  University of London

• Mapping speech research in HCI: Trends, Themes & Challenges.

  January 2019

  UCLIC, University College London

• The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes & Challenges.

  November 2018

  Birmingham University

• Do we know how computers should talk to us? Exploring the concept of appropriate machinelike communication.

  March 2018

  University College Dublin

• “But it’s just a machine” – exploring language use and voice variation in computer speech.

  October 2016

  York St John University