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Catherine Lai is a Reader in Speech Language Technology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the use of non-lexical aspects of speech, such as prosody, to enhance the understanding of spoken language. She is particularly interested in how prosody influences speaker expectations and how it can be incorporated into speech synthesis technologies. Additionally, her work aims to develop models that account for contextual variations in speech communication. Lai's current research interests include the generation and perception of prosody in synthetic speech, modeling expectations in spoken dialogue, topic stance detection, and multimodal emotion recognition. She is affiliated with the Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation at the University of Edinburgh, where she organizes courses in Speech Processing and Discourse Analysis for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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