Lei He
(MSc, MA, BA)
My research interest evolves from mathematical modelling of speech rhythm. In addition to the extensively researched durational characteristics in the speech signal, I am now more interested in how energy distribution in the acoustic signal can tell us about speech rhythm. Moreover, I am also interested in speaker idiosyncratic features, which are potentially useful in forensic applications. Combining these two, I am now working on between-speaker rhythmic characteristics in terms of intensity variability in the speech signal.
Currently, I am a PhD student and research assistant to Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo in the project "VoiceTime" funded by the Gebert Rüf Stiftung. Moreover, I am also an investigator of the IAFPA supported project of shouted speech with Kostis Dimos and Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo.
Before coming to the University of Zurich, I had an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (UK), an MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Renmin University (China), and a BA in the English Language and Literature from Inner Mongolia University (China).
