Catherine Lai
Lecturer in Speech and Language Processing
Studies spoken language, especially prosody and its role in conversation, using speech technology and computational analysis.
Catherine Lai's lab at Edinburgh works on speech recognition & spoken language and dialogue, generation & summarization. 27 papers since 2023, 13 at top venues, mostly Interspeech and ICASSP. 7 PhD students. 7 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 48%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 7
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 5
- 8 papers2024 · T1 1
- 11 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Interspeech, ICASSP, CHI, LREC, SLT
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language20 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization4 papers
- computational analysis0 papers
- spoken language0 papers
- spoken0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
20256 papers
- ICASSP (T1)Can We “Cherry-Pick”? Investigating Multiple Renditions from a Generative Speech Synthesis Model (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ISCA Speech Synthesis WorkshopModelling Degrees of Spontaneity in Text-to-Speech Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Prosodic Structure Beyond Lexical Content: A Study of Self-Supervised Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Revise, Reason, and Recognize: LLM-Based Emotion Recognition via Emotion-Specific Prompts and ASR Error Correction (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Semi-Supervised Cognitive State Classification from Speech with Multi-View Pseudo-Labeling (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop1st Place Solution to Odyssey Emotion Recognition Challenge Task1: Tackling Class Imbalance Problem (opens in a new tab)
- SLTCrossmodal ASR Error Correction With Discrete Speech Units (opens in a new tab)
- Speech ProsodyHierarchical Intonation Modelling for Speech Synthesis using Legendre Polynomial Coefficients (opens in a new tab)
- Speech ProsodyIs there an uncanny valley for speech? Investigating listeners’ evaluations of realistic TTS voices (opens in a new tab)
- LRECLanguage Technologies as If People Mattered: Centering Communities in Language Technology Development (opens in a new tab)
- SLTLarge Language Model Based Generative Error Correction: A Challenge and Baselines For Speech Recognition, Speaker Tagging, and Emotion Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSPWLayer-Wise Analysis of Self-Supervised Acoustic Word Embeddings: A Study on Speech Emotion Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Well, what can you do with messy data? Exploring the prosody and pragmatic function of the discourse marker “well” with found data and speech synthesis (opens in a new tab)
202311 papers
- Interspeech (T1)ASR and Emotional Speech: A Word-Level Investigation of the Mutual Impact of Speech and Emotion Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- EACLDo dialogue representations align with perception? An empirical study (opens in a new tab)
- ACIIWEmpowering Dialogue Systems with Affective and Adaptive Interaction: Integrating Social Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Everyone has an accent (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue (opens in a new tab)
- ICPhSLanguage redundancy effects on F0: A preliminary controlled study (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Multimodal Dyadic Impression Recognition via Listener Adaptive Cross-Domain Fusion (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Quantifying the perceptual value of lexical and non-lexical channels in speech (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and DialogueSynthesising Personality with Neural Speech Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- SSW2023Synthesising turn-taking cues using natural conversational data (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Transfer Learning for Personality Perception via Speech Emotion Recognition (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went7 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
Not announced yet
Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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