Welcome to my website! My name is Katarzyna (Kasia) Klessa and I am a university professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. I study how we speak, move and interact – focusing on speech timing, prosody, and multimodal communication. I also design tools and corpora that support empirical research and teaching. I greatly value teamwork and academic networking, and I enjoy collaborating across disciplines and research communities.
Dariah-PL @AMU slides for the Poland in Silicon Valley summit, December 2025. Click the image below to view the slides:
Research – Key Areas
Speech Prosody, Timing
Empirical studies on rhythm and timing variability in spoken language. Speech annotation mining.
Multimodal Corpora
Design of audio and video datasets linking speech, gesture and movement trajectories.
Speech Annotation Tools
Development of software and plugins (e.g., Annotation Pro) supporting multimodal analysis.
For more see R&D, Publications and Timeline sections of this website
Featured Projects
- Dariah-Lab – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, AMU-Modules Read More, View Slides
- Dariah-Hub – a multimodal communication corpus enriched with movement trajectories and synchronised annotations, View Dataset
- Annotation Pro – an extensible software tool for speech and gesture annotation, with plugins for temporal and multimodal analysis, Visit Website
- DELAD Initiative – infrastructure and guidelines for sharing datasets of disordered speech in an ethical and secure way, Visit Website
For more see R&D, Publications and Timeline sections of this website
Contact
Prof. UAM dr hab. Katarzyna Klessa
E-mail: klessa (at) amu.edu.pl, katarzyna (at) klessa.pl
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Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej (The Institute of Applied Linguistics)
Wydział Neofilologii (Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures)
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)