Research Interests

PROJECTS

• ACORNS   Acquisition of Communication and Recognition Skills
• Auroral Acoustics  Study of sound effects associated with Aurora Borealis & geomagnetic storms (Auroral Sounds)
  

PROJECTS (history)

•     STT Speech-To-Text (TEKES/USIX)
•     FAMbac project: - FAMlet based audio coding

OWN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Active:

• Cognitive Information Processing (Theory, Models, Latent learning, Recognition)
  
• New architecture for speech recognizers (ACORNS)

• Frequency warping tecniques & time-frequency methods

  WLP Warped Linear Prediction
  GLP Generalized Linear prediction
  FAMlets and Laguerre functions

• FAM and FAMlet classes of orthonormal functions
• Block Recursive Algorithm for Auditory Spectrograms (BRASS)
• Applications of BRASS to speech analysis and recognition
• Speech Analysis (pitch synchronous phenomena)
• Nonlinear (time variant) modelling of speech production
  and the quality of synthetic speech

HISTORY

• Instrument for blood flow measurements (1971-1972)
• Text-to-speech system for Finnish: Synte 2 and Synte 3 (1973-1980) projects
• Parts of my work in Synte 2 project are documented in my Licentiate thesis
• Parts of my work in Synte 3 project are documented in my Doctoral thesis
• Modelling of vocal tract acoustics (1981-1989)
• Speech analysis studies (1987-)
• FAM class of orthonormal functions (1983, 1988-) [Short History]
• FAMlets (1991-)

PUBLICATIONS (some of them)


Curriculum Vitae
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