Matti Antero Karjalainen







Matti Antero Karjalainen (April 2, 1946 – May 30, 2010) was a Finnish speech processing researcher and inventor in the fields of speech synthesis, speech analysis, speech technology, audio signal processing and psychoacoustics. He was the head of Acoustics Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1980 to 2006.

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.

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.

Awards and honors

 * Audio Engineering Society Fellow (1999), for significant contribution to the areas of audio signal processing and education in audio
 * 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
 * IEEE Fellow (2009)

Thesis

 * Master's thesis (Electronic thermal energy meter)
 * Licentiate thesis (A Study on Multi-Band Audio Frequency Equalizers)
 * PhD thesis