Matti Antero Karjalainen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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A pioneer in Finnish speech synthesis and speech technology
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Place of Birth: Hankasalmi, Finland
About Matti Antero Karjalainen
- Matti Antero Karjalainen (April 2, 1946 – May 30, 2010) studied electronics at the Tampere University of Technology and received a doctoral degree on speech synthesis in 1978.
- He developed Synte 2 the first portable microprocessor-based text-to-speech synthesizer in the world.He was the head of Acoustics Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1980 to 2006.
- He is speech synthesis, speech analysis, speech technology, audio signal processing and psychoacoustics pioneer in Finland.
- 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 Signal Processing and Acoustics of the Aalto University.
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