Matti Antero Karjalainen – Wikipedia

Finnish professor

Matti Antero Karjalainen
Matti Antero Karjalainen (1994)
Born	(1946-04-02)April 2, 1946
Died	May 30, 2010(2010-05-30) (aged 64)
Nationality	Finnish
Alma mater	Tampere University of Technology (TUT)
Known for	Synte 2 speech synthesizer
Awards	Audio Engineering Society Fellow (1999), Audio Engineering Society Silver Medal (2006), IEEE Fellow (2009)
Scientific career
Fields	Speech synthesis, Speech analysis, Speech technology, Audio signal processing, Psychoacoustics
Institutions	Acoustics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
Thesis	An Approach to Hierarchical Information Processes with an Application to Speech Synthesis by Rule (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Boris Segerståhl
Doctoral students	Vesa Välimäki, Ville Pulkki

Microprocessor cards of Synte 2 speech synthesizer (1979) ^[1]

Synte 2 speech synthesizer for speech impaired people (1979) ^[1]

Synte 2 speech synthesizer on the table (1979) ^[1]

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 created Synte 2, the first portable text-to-speech synthesizer powered by a microprocessor.^[2]

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.^[2]

Awards and honors[edit]

Education[edit]

Karjalainen studied 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.^[3]

Thesis publications[edit]

Publications[edit]

• Karjalainen, M.A.; Laine, U.K. [in Finnish]; Toivonen, R.O. (1980). “Aids for the handicapped based on “Synte 2″ speech synthesizer”. ICASSP ’80. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (PDF). Vol. 5. ICASSP-80, April 9–11, 1980. pp. 851–854. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1980.1171070. S2CID 3209817. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-27.
• Karjalainen, Matti (1980). Design of a microprocessor-based system for speech analysis. Tampere University of Technology, Department of Electronics, Finland. ISBN 951-720-490-6.

• Karjalainen, Matti (1986). Kutsu kuulemaan julkista esitelmää, jonka Teknillisen korkeakoulun akustiikan professori Matti Antero Karjalainen pitää virkaanastujaisissaan marraskuun 11. päivänä 1986. (Invitation to hear a public presentation by a professor of acoustics Matti Antero Karjalainen at the University of Technology will hold his inauguration on November 11, 1986), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. ISBN 951-753-928-2.
• Karjalainen, Matti, ed. (1987). Puheen kuulemisen mallintaminen. (On the modelling of speech perception). Helsinki University of Technology, Acoustics Laboratory, Finland. ISBN 951-754-154-6.
• Karjalainen, Matti (1999). Kommunikaatioakustiikka. (Communication Acoustics). Helsinki University of Technology, Acoustics Laboratory, Finland. ISBN 951-22-4412-8.
• Karjalainen, Matti (2000). Hieman akustiikkaa (A Little Acoustics). (A Little Acoustics). Helsinki University of Technology, Acoustics Laboratory, Finland.
• Pulkki, Ville; Karjalainen, Matti (2015). Communication Acoustics: An Introduction to Speech, Audio and Psychoacoustics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-118-86654-2.

Personal web pages[edit]

Gallery[edit]

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  Synte 2 speech synthesizer and symbol table (1979)^[1]

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  Speech Processing System SPS-01 (1979)^[4]

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  Synte 2 speech synthesizer at the Invention Exhibition at the Museum Center Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland, picture 1 (June 20, 2012–)^[5]

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  Synte 2 speech synthesizer at the Invention Exhibition at the Museum Center Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland, picture 2 (June 20, 2012–)^[5]

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  Synte 2 speech synthesizer at the Invention Exhibition at the Museum Center Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland, picture 3 (June 20, 2012–)^[5]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Media related to Finnish speech synthesizers at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Finnish speech analyzers at Wikimedia Commons
• “semanticscholar: Matti A. Karjalainen, h-index 42, 274 publications, 7,696 citations”. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
• “scopus.com: Matti A. Karjalainen, h-index 31, 139 dokuments, 4,012 citations by 3,026 dokuments”. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
• “yle.fi: Matti Antero Karjalainen and Synte 2 speech synthesizer, 1977”. Retrieved January 13, 2021.