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title: "Alex Ahmed"
Description: "[Alex](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gc8T8LkAAAAJ&hl=en) talks to us about [Project Spectra](https://github.com/project-spectra), an online, community-based, free and open source software application for transgender voice training. We discuss speech pathology and the politics of pitch, along with the importance of grass-roots led tech projects and community-centred design."
aliases: []
author: "Machine Listening"
date: "2020-09-21T00:00:00-05:00"
episode_image: "images/ml.gif"
explicit: "no"
hosts: ["james-parker", "joel-stern", "sean-dockray"]
images: ["images/ml.gif"]
news_keywords: []
podcast_duration: "50:26"
podcast_file: "https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Alex%20Ahmed/Alex%20Ahmed%20(22)/Alex%20Ahmed%20-%20Alex%20Ahmed.mp3"
podcast_bytes: ""
youtube: ""
categories: []
series: []
tags: []
transcript: "http://git.metadada.xyz/machinelistening/curriculum/src/branch/master/content/transcript/ahmed.md"
---