Ailbhe Ní Chasaide - Biography#

Ailbhe Ní Chasaide is Professor in Phonetics in Trinity College Dublin. She set up Trinity’s Phonetics & Speech Laboratory, and leads a research group, which has collaborated in funded projects in Europe and nationally. Her research focuses on (i) the human voice, how it conveys linguistic and affective prosody and how to capture this in synthetic speech, and (ii) Irish prosodic structure, linguistic resources, speech technology and applications for the Irish dialects.

Employment

• 2003 Professor in Phonetics, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 1993 - 2003 Senior Lecturer in Phonetics, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 1979 - 1992 Lecturer in Phonetics, Trinity College Dublin
  
• 1974 - 1975 Research and Teaching Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway

Education

• 1985 PhD Experimental Phonetics, University of Wales, Bangor
  
• 1977 MA Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor
  
• 1975 Maîtrise ès Lettres French Literature, Université de Bordeaux, France
  
• 1973BA French/German, University College Galway, Ireland

Memberships and Awards (selection)

• 2021 ISCA - IAC Advisory Committee
  
• 2019 Council of the IPA
  
• 2003 Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship
  
• 1998 Fellow Trinity College Dublin (elected)
  
• 1995 Treasurer of the International Phonetic Association
  
• 1993 Vice President of the International Phonetic Association
  
• 1987 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to MIT & Haskins Laboratories, New Haven
  
• 1986 Swedish Institute Scholarship to KTH, Stockholm
  
• 1982 Senior Research Fellowship, Oxford University

Research Mentoring

• Research group, currently: 4 Postdocs, 2 Research Assistants, 5PhDs, & 6 part time researchers.
  
• Co-founded under/postgraduate programmes in the discipline in Ireland
  
• Extensive PhD, MA and MPhil research supervision

Research Projects (sample)

Over 20 funded research projects, including:

• ABAIR I, II & III (2011-2025): linguistic resources and technologies for Irish [Irish Govt., Dept of the Gaeltacht, totalling €3.85m]
  
• FastNet (2011-15): Voice in Social Interaction [Science Foundation Ireland, €1.12m]
  
• RóbóGlór (2013 & 2022-24): Expressive Voice in Irish Synthesis [Irish Govt., Dept. of Gaeltacht, [€136,000]
  
• HUMAINE (2003-7): Emotion in Human-Machine Interaction [EU 6th Framework, €101,000]