- Beyond the “Industry Standard”: Focusing Gender-Affirming Voice Training Technologies on Individualized Goal Exploration (CHI 2025)
We interviewed six voice experts and ten transgender individuals with voice training experience (voice trainees), focusing on how they defined, triangulated, and used voice goals. We found that goal voice exploration involves navigation between approximate and clear goals, and continuous reevaluation throughout the voice training journey. Our study reveals how voice examples, character descriptions, and voice modification and training technologies inform goal exploration, and identifies risks of overemphasizing goals.
- Springboard, Roadblock or “Crutch”?: How Transgender Users Leverage Voice Changers for Gender Presentation in Social Virtual Reality (IEEE VR 2024)
We interviewed 13 transgender and gender-nonconforming users of social VR platforms, focusing on their experiences with and without voice changers to explore the connection between avatar embodiment and voice representation (Povinelli and Zhao 2024).