Speech Communication Technology

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Paavo Alku
- Department of Information and Communications Engineering - Professor
- Speech Communication Technology
Person: Professors, tenure track
19922025
Farhad Javanmardi
- Department of Information and Communications Engineering - Postdoctoral Researcher
- Speech Communication Technology - Postdoctoral Researcher
Person: Postdoctoral researchers
20202025
Manila Kodali
- School of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Information and Communications Engineering - Doctoral Researcher
- Speech Communication Technology - Doctoral Researcher
Person: Doctoral students, Doctoral Student
20192025

1 Finished

Computational modeling of language acquisition
Alku, P. (Principal investigator), Laine, U. K. (Principal investigator), Remes, U. (Project Member), Räsänen, O. (Project Member), Seshadri, S. (Project Member), Lehtinen, M. (Project Member), Lamminsalo, J. (Project Member), Kakouros, S. (Project Member), Das, S. (Project Member) & Rasilo, H. (Project Member)
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2016
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding

Automatic Classification of Strain in the Singing Voice using Machine Learning
Liu, Y., Reddy, M. K., Yagnavajjula, M., Räsänen, O., Alku, P., Ikävalko, T., Hakanpää, T., Öyry, A. & Laukkanen, A.-M., 18 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Voice. 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access
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1 Citation (Scopus)

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Automatic classification of vocal intensity categories from amplitude-normalized speech signals by comparing acoustic features and classifier models
Kodali, M., Ansari, L., Kadiri, S., Narayanan, S. & Alku, P., Oct 2025, In: Speech Communication. 174, 27 p., 103288.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access
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Automatic Detection of Parkinsonian Speech using Wavelet Scattering Features
Mittapalle, K. & Alku, P., 1 May 2025, In: JASA Express Letters. 5, 5, 8 p., 055202.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access
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1 Citation (Scopus)

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Speech and EGG (Electroglottography) Simultaneous Recordings, downloadable version
Alku, P. (Creator), Language Bank of Finland, 1 Jan 2021
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2020112923
Dataset
AVID: Aalto Vocal Intensity Database
Alku, P. (Creator), Kodali, M. (Creator) & Kadiri, S. R. (Creator), Zenodo, 18 May 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7948299, https://zenodo.org/record/7948300 and one more link, https://zenodo.org/records/10524873 (show fewer)
Dataset
Speech and EGG (Electroglottography) Simultaneous Recordings
Alku, P. (Creator), Language Bank of Finland, 1 Jan 2018
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-20140730182 and one more link, https://etsin.fairdata.fi/dataset/d9017f06-8214-4c24-85ca-f90230318ae4 (show fewer)
Dataset

Academy Professor
Alku, P. (Recipient), 1 Jan 2015
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
IEEE Fellow
Alku, P. (Recipient), 1 Jan 2020
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
ISCA Fellow
Alku, P. (Recipient), 5 Apr 2020
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

Pre-examination of a PhD thesis at Indian Institute of Science
Alku, P. (Examiner)
15 Aug 2025
Activity: Academic assessments › Pre-examination of doctoral thesis or acting as opponent to doctoral students or membership of doctoral thesis committee or board
Promotion to associate professor
Alku, P. (Examiner)
4 Apr 2025
Activity: Academic assessments › Statement of assessment of professorship
Full Professor evaluation, IIIT Hyderabad
Alku, P. (Examiner)
10 Oct 2025
Activity: Academic assessments › Statement of assessment of professorship

Researchers from Aalto University Detail Findings in Dysphonia (Classification of Functional Dysphonia Using the Tunable Q Wavelet Transform)
Alku, P.
21/12/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Studies from Aalto University in the Area of Computer Science Reported (Investigation of Self-supervised Pre-trained Models for Classification of Voice Quality From Speech and Neck Surface Accelerometer Signals)
Alku, P.
04/10/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Studies from Aalto University Reveal New Findings on Parkinson's Disease (Automatic Classification of the Severity Level of Parkinson's Disease: a Comparison of Speaking Tasks, Features, and Classifiers)
Alku, P. & Kodali, M.
28/09/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance