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Professor Ailbhe Ní Chasaide at Trinity College Dublin is a leading figure in phonetics, with expertise in voice quality, speech production, and Irish language prosody. She established Trinity’s Phonetics & Speech Laboratory and leads a multidisciplinary team focused on speech technology and endangered language preservation.
Education
- PhD Experimental Phonetics, University of Wales, Bangor (1985)
- MA Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor (1977)
- Maîtrise ès Lettres French Literature, Université de Bordeaux (1975)
- BA French/German, University College Galway (1973)
Her research explores how voice quality interacts with prosody to convey emotion and linguistic meaning, alongside pioneering work in documenting and preserving the Irish language through speech technology. Key areas include experimental phonetics, speech acoustics, and Irish dialect intonation.
Recent publications highlight affective prosody, cross-language voice quality analysis, and Irish language revitalization. These works span acoustic modeling, synthetic speech applications, and the role of prosody in linguistic identity.
Scientific Awards
- Elected member of the ISCA IAC (2021)
- Elected to Council of the International Phonetic Association (2019)
- Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship (2003)
- Fellow Trinity College Dublin (1998)
- Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (1987)
- Senior Research Fellowship, Oxford University (1982)
Professor Ní Chasaide mentors a team of postdocs, research assistants, and PhD students. She has co-founded Irish postgraduate programs in phonetics and supervised numerous researchers. Her projects, including ABAIR (€3.85m) and FastNet (€1.12m), focus on speech technology and social interaction studies.
