Jessica Tsun Lem Hui

I am a researcher, educator, and community musician based in London and Hertfordshire. My work explores the intersection between emerging technologies, culture, and sound. My current interest is exploring the social and cultural implications of creative AI in community music and higher education settings.

My research sits at the crossroads of musicology and science and technology studies. I am currently contributing a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Media and Vocality (forthcoming, 2025), focusing on interface design, architecture and interaction in voice synthesis software. This work examines how software developers construct particular ideas about the user through their designs, and how real users both align with and subvert those ideas in practice. I have also published on the use of singing voice synthesis and new media in opera.

At present, I am a lecturer and researcher at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Alongside this, I work with local businesses and charities to facilitate music and health initiatives.

I completed my PhD in Music at the University of Cambridge in 2024, funded by the Scottish International Education Trust. My doctoral research focused on the cultural history of technological voices—tracing a history of imitation from 18th-century speaking machines to contemporary AI voice synthesis.

I was a visiting scholar at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022, supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. There, I conducted research on the posthumous performance of Misora Hibari and AI voice synthesis.