Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
See my website for more info https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/clai/
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Rises all the way up: The interpretation of prosody, discourse attitudes and dialogue structure, University of Pennsylvania
Award Date: 1 Jan 2012
College Research Themes
- Data & Digital
- Cultural Heritage
- Identities & Inequalities
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Crossmodal ASR error correction with discrete speech units
Li, Y., Chen, P., Bell, P. & Lai, C., 26 May 2024, ArXiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Synthesising personality with neural speech synthesis
Gao, S., Aylett, M., Braude, D. & Lai, C., 15 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Everyone has an accent
Markl, N. & Lai, C., Sept 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Interspeech 2023. Harte, N., Carson-Berndsen, J. & Jones, G. (eds.). Dublin: ISCA, p. 4424-4427 (Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Synthesising turn-taking cues using natural conversational data
O'Mahony, J., Lai, C. & King, S., 28 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop: (SSW2023). Bailly, G., Hueber, T., Lolive, D., Obin, N. & Perrotin, O. (eds.). Grenoble: ISCA, p. 75-80 5 p. (Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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ASR and Emotional Speech: A Word-Level Investigation of the Mutual Impact of Speech and Emotion Recognition
Li, Y., Zhao, Z., Klejch, O., Bell, P. & Lai, C., 20 Aug 2023, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023. International Speech Communication Association, p. 1449-1453 5 p. (Interspeech).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
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Watch your tone! Understanding prosodic variation in synthetic speech
Catherine Lai (Invited speaker)
15 Jul 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Across the prosodic dimension: Exploring spoken communication beyond text
Catherine Lai (Keynote speaker)
1 Jul 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Into the prosodic dimension: Finding meaning in the non-lexical aspects of speech
Catherine Lai (Invited speaker)
24 Apr 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Prosody, dialogue and (machine) expectations: exploring spoken dialogue understanding with speech and language technologies
Catherine Lai (Invited speaker)
22 Apr 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Watch your tone! Exploring prosodic variation with(in) speech and language technologies
Catherine Lai (Invited speaker)
21 Mar 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
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Best student paper at Interspeech 2022
Wallbridge, Sarenne (Recipient), Bell, Peter (Recipient) & Lai, Catherine (Recipient), 22 Sept 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities: Prosodic structure at the interface between language and speech
Boegel, T., Turk, A., Lai, C. & Napoleao de Souza, R.
1/02/22 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
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Consolidated Studentships - Bell 2020
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/09/20 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
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PPLS Small Project Grant : Map Task to the Future
1/10/22 → 31/07/23
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Young People and their Caregivers in Edinburgh and the Lothians: Covid-19 in their words
Hall-Lew, L., Cowie, C., Lai, C., Liu, S., Kerr, N., Gillespie-Smith, K., Sharpe, H. & Happer, R.
1/03/21 → 31/07/21
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project
Hall-Lew, L., Cowie, C., Alex, B., Lai, C., Kerr, N., Liu, S. & Llewellyn, C.
25/05/20 → 31/07/20
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Datasets
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Lothian Diaries Dataset 1 (May-September 2020)
Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Data Collector), Lai, C. (Data Manager), Liu, S. (Data Collector), Markl, N. (Data Collector), McNulty, S. (Data Collector), Alex, B. (Data Collector), Llewellyn, C. (Data Collector), Kerr, N. (Data Collector), Elliott Slosarova, Z. (Data Collector), Klingler, A. (Data Collector) & Hall-Lew, L. (Owner), Edinburgh DataVault, 30 Sept 2022
DOI: 10.7488/7a22cc4b-87ec-4df3-a549-3b347fd4bca5
Dataset
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The Lothian Diary Project - Sep 2022
Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Creator), McNulty, S. (Creator), Markl, N. (Creator), Liu, S. (Creator), Lai, C. (Creator), Llewellyn, C. (Creator), Alex, B. (Creator), Kerr, N. (Creator), Elliott slosarova, Z. (Creator) & Klingler, A. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 8 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7512
Dataset
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The Lothian Diary Project - Oct 2020
Kerr, N. (Creator), Lai, C. (Creator), Llewellyn, C. (Creator), Elliott slosarova, Z. (Creator), Klingler, A. (Creator), Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Creator), McNulty, S. (Creator), Markl, N. (Creator) & Liu, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 30 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3009
Dataset