Regular biography
Catherine Lai is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Processing at The University of Edinburgh, Department of Computer Science. Her work focuses on speech and language processing, though specific research details are not provided. She can be contacted via email at C.Lai@ed.ac.uk, and her profile is available at https://www.ed.ac.uk/Catherine_Lai.html.
Scholar-generated biography
Catherine Lai is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh with expertise in speech prosody, machine learning, speech processing, affective computing, discourse and dialogue. Her work focuses on understanding and modeling emotional and affective aspects of speech, including emotion recognition in spontaneous and acted dialogues, the impact of prosody on discourse attitudes, and the integration of multimodal information for emotion detection. She has explored self-supervised speech models, sentiment analysis, and the role of acoustic and lexical features in emotional speech recognition. Her research also addresses the challenges of synthetic speech evaluation and the interpretation of cue words and intonation in dialogue.