Event type:

In person

Date & time:

21 Mar 2024, 16:00 – 17:00

Speech Science Forum - Catherine Lai

Watch your tone! Exploring prosodic variation with(in) speech and language technologies

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Speech Science Forum - Catherine Lai

Catherine Lai

Lecturer in Speech and Language Technology

University of Edinburgh

I am a Lecturer in Speech and Language Technology, based in the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh, where I work on spoken language understanding, affective computing, and multimodal speech processing. My main interest is speech prosody, e.g., intonation and rhythmic properties of speech, and how varying the way we speak can change our understanding of speaker intent in a dialogue from both a recognition and generation perspective. I work on this from both a speech technology/machine learning perspective, as well as a linguistic perspective, drawing on work in semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Amongst other things, I’ve also worked on speech processing for multimedia archives, evaluation and interaction with speech technologies, and spoken language processing for robot companions.

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Free

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All

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Yes

Organiser

Rana Abu-Zhaya

rana.abuzhaya@ucl.ac.uk