Technologist Talk: Kathy Reid on Mozilla Common Voice
Mar 18

Join Mozilla’s Research & Development Lead Kathy Reid for a lunchtime presentation at SLV on Mozilla Common Voice and the Mozilla Data Collective, exploring how libraries can champion linguistic diversity, inclusion and equity.

Discover the linguistic variation already captured and hear how language communities are using the Common Voice API to gather speech data through interfaces that are more culturally aligned.

Kathy will also outline how the Mozilla Data Collective seeks to build a fair, sustainable model for data stewardship – supporting organisations, including GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), to generate revenue from their collections while protecting them from indiscriminate scraping.

This talk is perfect for library workers or anyone interested in ethical AI, digital collections and community-led language projects.

About Kathy Reid 

Kathy Reid works at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies and technical communities. She has held several technical leadership positions, including roles in web and apps development, video conferencing and digital signage. She was previously Digital Platforms Manager at Deakin University, Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft.AI, President of Linux Australia, and a voice open source specialist at Mozilla. In 2019, she was one of 16 people from across the world to be chosen to help shape a new branch of engineering at the Australian National University's 3A Institute, where she is now a PhD candidate researching voice data and ways to prevent and respond to bias.