Dr Catherine Lai

Dr Catherine Lai is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Technology, working at the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in spoken language understanding, affective computing, and multimodal speech processing. Her main focus on interest is how non-lexical aspects of speech contribute to discourse and dialogue understanding. She's particularly interested in speech prosody, e.g., pitch, energy, and timing, and how varying the way we speak can change our understanding of speaker intent in a dialogue from both a recognition and generation perspective. ion perspective.