| 2026 | CHI | The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech. | Alice Ross, Nina Markl, Catherine Lai, Lauren A. Hall-Lew |
| 2026 | LREC | MaiChat: A Text-based Dialogue Corpus Rich in Conversational Features. | Mai Hoang Dao, Catherine Lai, Peter Bell |
| 2025 | ICASSP | Can We "Cherry-Pick"? Investigating Multiple Renditions from a Generative Speech Synthesis Model. | Adaeze Adigwe, Sarenne Wallbridge, Zehai Tu, Catherine Lai, Simon King |
| 2025 | ICASSP | Semi-Supervised Cognitive State Classification from Speech with Multi-View Pseudo-Labeling. | Yuanchao Li, Zixing Zhang, Jing Han, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2025 | ICASSP | Revise, Reason, and Recognize: LLM-Based Emotion Recognition via Emotion-Specific Prompts and ASR Error Correction. | Yuanchao Li, Yuan Gong, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2025 | ICMI | HRAI 2025: The 1st Workshop on Holistic and Responsible Affective Intelligence. | Yuanchao Li, Dimitrios Kollias, Guillaume Chanel, Marios A. Fanourakis, Michal Muszynski, Brandon M. Booth, Leimin Tian, Madhawa Perera, Catherine Lai, Huili Chen |
| 2025 | Interspeech | Conveying Gender Through Speech: Insights from Trans Men. | Alice Ross, Cliodhna Hughes, Eddie L. Ungless, Catherine Lai |
| 2025 | Interspeech | Prosodic Structure Beyond Lexical Content: A Study of Self-Supervised Learning. | Sarenne Wallbridge, Christoph Minixhofer, Catherine Lai, Peter Bell |
| 2024 | COLING | Language Technologies as If People Mattered: Centering Communities in Language Technology Development. | Nina Markl, Lauren Hall-Lew, Catherine Lai |
| 2024 | ICASSP | Layer-Wise Analysis of Self-Supervised Acoustic Word Embeddings: A Study on Speech Emotion Recognition. | Alexandra Saliba, Yuanchao Li, Ramon Sanabria, Catherine Lai |
| 2024 | Interspeech | 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. | Johannah O'Mahony, Catherine Lai, va Szkely |
| 2023 | ACII | Empowering Dialogue Systems with Affective and Adaptive Interaction: Integrating Social Intelligence. | Yuanchao Li, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | CHI | I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue. | Yuanchao Li, Koji Inoue, Leimin Tian, Changzeng Fu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tatsuya Kawahara, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | EACL | Do dialogue representations align with perception? An empirical study. | Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | ICASSP | Multimodal Dyadic Impression Recognition via Listener Adaptive Cross-Domain Fusion. | Yuanchao Li, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | Interspeech | Transfer Learning for Personality Perception via Speech Emotion Recognition. | Yuanchao Li, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | Interspeech | ASR and Emotional Speech: A Word-Level Investigation of the Mutual Impact of Speech and Emotion Recognition. | Yuanchao Li, Zeyu Zhao, Ondrej Klejch, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | Interspeech | Everyone has an accent. | Nina Markl, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | Interspeech | Quantifying the perceptual value of lexical and non-lexical channels in speech. | Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2023 | SIGdial | Synthesising Personality with Neural Speech Synthesis. | Shilin Gao, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Braude, Catherine Lai |
| 2022 | HRI | Alzheimer's Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners. | Yuanchao Li, Catherine Lai, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2022 | ICASSP | Fusing ASR Outputs in Joint Training for Speech Emotion Recognition. | Yuanchao Li, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2022 | Interspeech | Combining conversational speech with read speech to improve prosody in Text-to-Speech synthesis. | Johannah O'Mahony, Catherine Lai, Simon King |
| 2022 | Interspeech | Voice Puppetry with FastPitch. | Emelie Van De Vreken, Korin Richmond, Catherine Lai |
| 2022 | Interspeech | Investigating perception of spoken dialogue acceptability through surprisal. | Sarenne Carrol Wallbridge, Catherine Lai, Peter Bell |
| 2021 | Interspeech | It's Not What You Said, it's How You Said it: Discriminative Perception of Speech as a Multichannel Communication System. | Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai |
| 2019 | CHI | "Why is the Doctor a Man": Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor. | Aurora Constantin, Catherine Lai, Elaine Farrow, Beatrice Alex, Ruth Pel-Littel, Henk Herman Nap, Johan Jeuring |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech. | Catherine Lai, Beatrice Alex, Johanna D. Moore, Leimin Tian, Tatsuro Hori, Gianpiero Francesca |
| 2018 | ICMI | Predicting group satisfaction in meeting discussions. | Catherine Lai, Gabriel Murray |
| 2018 | ICMI | Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology. | Gabriel Murray, Hayley Hung, Joann Keyton, Catherine Lai, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Catharine Oertel |
| 2018 | ICMI | Multimodal Analysis of Group Attitudes Towards Meeting Management. | Gabriel Murray, Catherine Lai |
| 2017 | ACII | Recognizing induced emotions of movie audiences: Are induced and perceived emotions the same? | Leimin Tian, Michal Muszynski, Catherine Lai, Johanna D. Moore, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun, Guillaume Chanel |
| 2017 | ICMI | Recognizing emotions in spoken dialogue with acoustic and lexical cues. | Leimin Tian, Johanna D. Moore, Catherine Lai |
| 2017 | Interspeech | A System for Real Time Collaborative Transcription Correction. | Peter Bell, Joachim Fainberg, Catherine Lai, Mark Sinclair |
| 2017 | Interspeech | Using Prosody to Classify Discourse Relations. | Janine Kleinhans, Mireia Farrs, Agustn Gravano, Juan Manuel Prez, Catherine Lai, Leo Wanner |
| 2016 | Interspeech | Automatic Paragraph Segmentation with Lexical and Prosodic Features. | Catherine Lai, Mireia Farrs, Johanna D. Moore |
| 2015 | ACII | Emotion recognition in spontaneous and acted dialogues. | Leimin Tian, Johanna D. Moore, Catherine Lai |
| 2015 | ACII | Recognizing emotions in dialogues with acoustic and lexical features. | Leimin Tian, Johanna D. Moore, Catherine Lai |
| 2015 | Interspeech | A system for automatic broadcast news summarisation, geolocation and translation. | Peter Bell, Catherine Lai, Clare Llewellyn, Alexandra Birch, Mark Sinclair |
| 2015 | Interspeech | Towards automatic detection of reported speech in dialogue using prosodic cues. | Alessandra Cervone, Catherine Lai, Silvia Pareti, Peter Bell |
| 2014 | CICLING | Word-Level Emotion Recognition Using High-Level Features. | Johanna D. Moore, Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai |
| 2014 | Interspeech | Incorporating lexical and prosodic information at different levels for meeting summarization. | Catherine Lai, Steve Renals |
| 2013 | Interspeech | Detecting summarization hot spots in meetings using group level involvement and turn-taking features. | Catherine Lai, Jean Carletta, Steve Renals |
| 2010 | Interspeech | What do you mean, you're uncertain?: the interpretation of cue words and rising intonation in dialogue. | Catherine Lai |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Perceiving surprise on cue words: prosody and semantics interact on right and really. | Catherine Lai |
| 2007 | Interspeech | Perception of disfluency: language differences and listener bias. | Catherine Lai, Kyle Gorman, Jiahong Yuan, Mark Y. Liberman |
| 2005 | PACLIC | LPath+: A First-Order Complete Language for Linguistic Tree Query. | Catherine Lai, Steven Bird |