Catherine Lai

Lecturer

Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Email: c.lai@ed.ac.uk
Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/clai/

Street: Room 2.11, Dugald Stewart Building
(Working at home some times)
City: 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AD

Teaching & PhD supervision

Undergraduate teaching

Sem 1, 2022/23Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061) - Course Organizer

Sem 2, 2022/23

LEL1B (LASC08023)
Discourse Analysis (LASC10114)

Postgraduate teaching

Sem 1, 2022/23:

Speech Processing (LASC11158) - Course Organizer

Sem 2, 2022/23

Discourse Analysis (LASC11159)

Office Hours by appointment.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

As first supervisor:

Sarenne Wallbridge (with Peter Bell & Steve Renals)
Nina Markl ( with Lauren Hall-Lew)
Yuanchao Li (with Peter Bell)

As second supervisor:

Pilar Oplustil Gallegos (with Simon King)
Johannah O'Mahony (with Simon King)
Emelie van de Vreken (with Korin Richmond)
Jie Chi (with Peter Bell)
Mai Dao (with Peter Bell)
Bonnie Liu (with Sumin Zhao, Christian Ilbury)

Past PhD students supervised

Leimin Tian (co-supervised with Johanna Moore)

Research

Research summary

Speech prosody, spoken language understanding, affective computing, discourse and dialogue structure, semantics, pragmatics, information structure

Current research interests

Topic and stance detection from spoken dialogue; Prosody, presuppositions and information structure; Generation and perception of prosody in synthetic speech Multimodal emotion recognition

Past research interests

See my website!

Affiliated research centres

Publications

Exploration of A Self-Supervised Speech Model: A Study on Emotional Corpora (8 pages) 30 Sep 2022
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
Combining conversational speech with read speech to improve prosody in Text-to-Speech synthesis 15 Jun 2022
Research output: › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
Investigating perception of spoken dialogue acceptability through surprisal (5 pages) 13 Jun 2022
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
Alzheimer's Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners (5 pages) 7 Mar 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/3523760.3523896
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
Robotic Speech Synthesis: Perspectives on Interactions, Scenarios, and Ethics (4 pages) 2 Mar 2022
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
The Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown (10 pages) 22 Feb 2022 In: Linguistics Vanguard, pp. 1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Fusing ASR Outputs in Joint Training for Speech Emotion Recognition (5 pages) 21 Jan 2022
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
Voice Puppetry with FastPitch 2022
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Published)
Voice Puppetry with FastPitch: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (2 pages) 2022
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published)
It's not what you said, it's how you said it: discriminative perception of speech as a multichannel communication system (5 pages) 30 Aug 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1658
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)

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This article was published on 19 Jan, 2023