Matti Antero Karjalainen (April 2, 1946 – May 30, 2010) was a Finnish speech processing researcher and inventor in the fields of
speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
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speech analysis
Voice analysis is the study of speech sounds for purposes other than linguistic content, such as in speech recognition. Such studies include mostly medical analysis of the voice (phoniatrics), but also speaker identification. More controversially ...
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speech technology,
audio signal processing and
psychoacoustics. He was the head of Acoustics Laboratory at the
Helsinki University of Technology from 1980 to 2006.
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Education
Karjalainen studied electronics at the Tampere University of Technology, where he obtained a M.Sc. (Dipl.Eng.) in 1970, a Lic.Tech. in 1974, and a Dr.Tech. (with honors) in 1978.[
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Career
Karjalainen created 1979 Synte 2, the first portable text-to-speech synthesizer powered by a microprocessor.[
He was the head of Acoustics Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1980 to 2006. He became an associate professor 1980 and a full professor 1986. He was the supervisor of 24 doctoral theses and over 100 master's theses. His laboratory is now part of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering of the Aalto University.][
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Awards and honors
Audio Engineering Society Fellow (1999), ''for significant contribution to the areas of audio signal processing and education in audio''
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Audio Engineering Society Silver Medal (2006), ''in recognition of outstanding scientific contributions to the audio industry in acoustics, auralization, and digital signal processing and synthesis''
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Publications
Thesis
* Master's thesis (Electronic thermal energy meter)
* Licentiate thesis (A Study on Multi-Band Audio Frequency Equalizers)
* PhD thesis
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People from Hankasalmi
Finnish inventors
Academic staff of the Helsinki University of Technology
Fellows of the IEEE
Speech processing researchers
1946 births
2010 deaths