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Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: and 1 other boosted

“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”

– Mozilla

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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/advertising/

#trust #mozilla #ads #lmao

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Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al · 6 days ago

“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”

– Mozilla

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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/advertising/

#trust #mozilla #ads #lmao

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David Haigh

@leanlearnlead@mstdn.ca · 2 months ago

Why isn't trust measured in organizations?

Because #trust is rarely earned by leaders, it is expected.

Because trust is squandered through layoffs, short-sighted decisions, zero sum games, greed, and ego.

https://hbr.org/2025/11/if-trust-is-so-important-why-arent-we-measuring-it

Kathy Reid

@KathyReid@aus.social · last month

Alongside my colleagues, Associate Professor Francis Tyers from Indiana University Bloomington and E.M. L., from Mozilla Data Collective, we're delighted to be presenting a Special Session at Interspeech 2026 in Sydney in September 2026 on:

Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives

You can see the Special Session website at:

https://safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org/

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There are some outstanding Special Sessions this year, and I've taken the liberty of listing them - and their organisers. Do consider submitting to the #CfP - it's rare that #Interspeech makes it to Australia and we all want to make the most of it.

#Indigenous voices in Speech Sciences and Technology

Website at: https://indigenousvoicesinterspeech.github.io/

Brought to you by Dr. Cat Kutay, Prof. Janet Wiles, A/Prof Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Dr. Ben Hutchinson, and Daan van Esch

ECT-SpeechAI: #Explainability for #Compliance and #Trust in Speech AI

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/ect-speechai2026

Brought to you by Dr. Xiaoliang Wu, Sarah Kiden, Poppy Welch, Assistant Professor Sneha Das, Assistant Professor Zhengjun Yue, Dr. Sarenne Wallbridge, Assistant Professor Jennifer Williams, PhD

Challenges in Speech Data Collection, Curation and Annotation

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/speech-data-cca/home

Brought to you by Mostafa Shahin, Tunde Szalay, Thomas Schaaf, Ahmed Ali, Jingyao (Jennifer) Wu, Mengyue Wu, Professor Tan Lee, Professor Mark Liberman, Professor Carlos Busso, A/Prof Beena Ahmed

Post-Training of Speech Foundation Models

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/ptsfm

Brought to you by Yang Xiao, Xiangyu Zhang, Ziyang Ma, Siyi Wang, Jiaheng Dong, Professor Eng Siong Chng, Dr Ting Dang

CHILDSPACE: Child Home Interaction and Language Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation and Environments

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/childspace-interspeech-2026/home

Brought to you by Dr Kaveri Sheth, Dr Alejandrina Cristia, A/Prof Beena Ahmed, Assistant Professor Meg Cychosz, Dr Ting Dang, Kaya de Barbaro, Professor Carol Espy-Wilson, Rebecca Holt, Professor Herman Kamper, Marvin Lavechin, Assistant Professor Jialu Li, Ph.D., Professor Okko Rasanen, Professor Odette Scharenborg, Mostafa Shahin.

Pacific Voices 2026: Speech Science and Technology for Languages of the Pacific Ocean

Website at: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/events/pacificvoices2026/

Brought to you by: Associate Professor Peter Keegan, Dr Jesin James, Dr Isabella Shields, Dr Satwinder Singh, Dr Rolando Coto-Solano.

Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/is-queer-trans/home

Brought to you by: Robin Netzorg, Nina Markl, Cliodhna Hughes, Juliana Francis, Francisca Pessanha.

Speech AI for All: Challenging Deficit-based approaches to Speech Science and Technology

Website at: https://sites.google.com/aimpower.org/speechai4all-at-interspeech/home

#SpeakingTogether

Speech AI for All @ InterSpeech

Special Session

While interest in queer voices has long been present in linguistics and speech processing, there has been a glaring lack of trans and queer voices in research on queer speech science and technology, with trans and queer people often being excluded from the very spaces that perform research or

https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz

Pacific Voices 2026

CHILDSPACE

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PTSFM

Motivation The rise of large foundation models has transformed natural language processing and speech understanding, driving major progress in recognition, synthesis, and translation. Through large-scale pre-training, these models acquire strong generalization capabilities across tasks. However,

speech Data CCA

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ECT-SpeechAI

This session aims to build a community of speech scientists and technologists advancing explainability methods, metrics, and evaluation frameworks in speech AI, not only as a tool for understanding model behaviour but with a focus on operationalizing explainable speech AI for accountability,

Joanna Bryson, blathering

@j2bryson@mastodon.social · last month

Attending another chatham rule meeting on AI. TIL #trust is a service in the agentic AI environment. No one shuould trust AI, wrong metaphor. Can we call it "credit check" or something?

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/no-one-should-trust-artificial-intelligence #weizenbaum

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/no-one-should-trust-artificial-intelligence

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UG Faculty of Philosophy

@facultyofphilosophygroningen@social.edu.nl · 2 months ago

‘ #Trust always plays a role, including in #science.’

Professor by special appointment in Societal Trust and @facultyofphilosophygroningen researcher Leah Henderson argues for the importance of evidence-based science.

According to Henderson, ‘trust is the cement that holds society together.’
As head of the Societal Trust research group at the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development UG, Henderson will study trust in the coming years.