Kathy Reid is a PhD Candidate in the ANU School of Cybernetics.
Ms Reid works at the intersection of data, speech technologies, and the people whose lives they touch.
Over the last 20 years, she has held several technical and industry leadership positions. She was previously Digital Delivery and Operations Manager at Deakin University, Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft.AI (a privacy-first voice assistant startup), President of Linux Australia, and has contracted as a voice data specialist to NVIDIA and Mozilla during her PhD.
In 2019, she was one of 16 people from across the world chosen to undertake a Masters Program in a brand new branch of engineering at the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics, where she is now a PhD candidate researching voice data and bias in technologies like speech recognition.
Ms Reid recently completed a Research Partnership with Mozilla’s Common Voice team, where she used Mozilla Common Voice data to assess the performance of the Whisper speech recognition on accented English, showing it was much less accurate for many spoken accents.
She has published opinion pieces for The Conversation, and speaks regularly on radio.