Tag: linguistic discrimination

Lal-apalooza Transcript

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Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: I'm Megan Figueroa.Carrie: And I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan: Happy anniversary. Carrie: Happy anniversary! Megan: Is that what we want to go with? Not birthday? We're not talking to the podcast. Carrie: It seems weird to have a non-corporeal entity an actual birthday. Megan: I … Continue reading Lal-apalooza Transcript →

Gorsh! We All Have Accents Transcript

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episode Carrie Gillon: Hi. Welcome to The Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: I'm Megan Figueroa. Carrie: And I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan: Carrie, I almost said I'm Carrie Gillon. I was like so in my head. I don't know why I was so in my head right now. Okay, that is … Continue reading Gorsh! We All Have Accents Transcript →

Snap, Crackle, K-Pop

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https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!98d4a Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Joyhanna Yoo Garza, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, about KPop, semiotics, cultural appropriation, and Ali Wong. (Buy her book here.) We also discuss International Week of Deaf People 2021 and The genocide of signed languages: protecting the linguistic rights of Africa’s deaf children. One of … Continue reading Snap, Crackle, K-Pop →

Me Myself and AI

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https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!739bc Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP. We … Continue reading Me Myself and AI →