🦜 i’ve been haunted by a bird call that only happens a few times in the 5-6am range. I shot out of bed this morning and ran outside with my recorder but it eluded me again.

who gets to define the problem, and who gets to validate the problem is being solved? – Meredith Whittaker we have to let people who are most affected lead, and respect their knowledge – @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) marginalized folks are the experts of their own experiences – @sabelonow

on new year’s eve I went for a hike to do some thinking and journaling about my goals for the year. this is all I wrote down. not sure what it means yet but it’s still the plan.

two guys at the market arguing about “what real art is”. Twitter spilling into the streets!

our local indie bookshop has Amazon Solimo brand hand sanitizer

this whole thread made me angry and sad over the weekend. revisiting it tonight is heartbreaking. #StopAsianHate

speech is music

when you forget to decode your Base64 text-to-speech audio 🤓🔊

Tomorrow at #VoiceLunch – Katy B and I chat on creating a #voice Art Museum w/ The Art Institute of Chicago open APIs, conversational metadata design for media, building in Alexa Conversations, contextual sound design in APL for Audio & more! 10am PST, hope 2seeU! register.voicelunch.com

extra! extra! read all about it!

two long awaited books out today 📖🎊 • Conversations With Things: UX Design for Chat and Voice Rebecca E @dianadoesthis Rosenfeld Media rosenfeldmedia.com/books/conversa… • The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots Kate Darling us.macmillan.com/books/97812502…

Siri Voice settings (iOS 14.4 vs 14.5)

good talk #asr holdin it down #nlu face plant #ConversationDesign

one of my favorite places to wait at a red light, finally got a 📸 👩‍🚀🐓🐼

🎹🔴 Live! – Barsh Gabe & Gene youtube.com/watch?v=XKk5h5…

big week in voice! – inaugural Women in Voice summit starts tomorrow womeninvoice.org/summit/ – Alexa Live on Wednesday Alexa Developers developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/al… – an inspired bunch of new of Alexa Champions announced today 🏆👏🏻 developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/al…

Congratulations Katy B on winning the Women in Voice Voice Experience Design of the Year Award! It was truly an honor to be nominated alongside you. Y’all: if you don’t know Katy, be sure to follow her — she’s built some terrific experiences like Art Museum and streams weekly!

many layers of awesome here 🔊🪄👂brilliant!

shyer than I used to be