Carolyn McGettigan is a psychologist and neuroscientist researching the perception and expression of voices, including aspects of speech, emotions, and identity. They are Chair in Speech and Hearing Sciences at UCL, and a principal investigator in the Vocal Communication Laboratory (https://vocolab.net). In 2023–24, Professor McGettigan held a Mid-Career Fellowship from The British Academy, investigating the psychology and ethics of voice clones.

Steven Bloch is a speech and language therapist and conversation analyst researching interactions between people with progressive speech loss, arising from conditions like motor neurone disease, and their communication partners. He is Chair in Communication and Social Interaction at UCL, Head of the Department of Language and Cognition, and co-lead of the UCL Better Conversations lab.

Cennydd Bowles is a technology ethicist, author of Future Ethics, and recently a Fulbright Scholar at Elon University, North Carolina. His research interests include manipulation and deception within AI systems, the use of futures methods to provoke moral imagination, and the ethics of product experimentation.

Tanvi Dinkar is a Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University, researching safety and ethics in generative AI. She is particularly interested in how online spaces affect offline lives, especially for women and girls, including work on online gender-based violence, deceptive human-likeness of chatbots, and AI-driven beauty standards. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at Institut Polytechnic with a Marie-Curie Scholarship, and holds MSc degrees in Linguistics and Informatics, both from the University of Edinburgh.

Nadine Lavan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Queen Mary University of London. Nadine’s work examines voice perception, with a focus on exploring how listeners makes sense of who they are talking to. As part of this work, Nadine has therefore asked questions such as: how do listeners recognise a familiar person from their voice, how do we become familiar with a voice, and how do we form first impressions?

Jonathan Chaim Reus (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and researcher exploring how sonic technologies (particularly AI and data-driven voice technologies) transform bodies, communities, and identities. He is an affiliate researcher at the University of Sussex’s Experimental Music Technologies Lab, the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, and the University of Iceland’s Intelligent Instruments Lab. Jonathan was recently the creative lead on the S+T+ARTS EU-funded DADAsets project, and received the KONTINUUM commission for generative radio art.

Victor Rosi is a researcher in cognitive science and audio signal processing, exploring how identity—particularly gender—is expressed and perceived through the voice. He currently holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, studying the acoustic and perceptual cues of gender-diverse voices.