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Artistic and research interests
Paavo Alku received his M.Sc., Lic.Tech., and Dr.Sc. (Tech.) degrees from Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland in 1986, 1988, and 1992, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1993, and the University of Turku, Finland, from 1994 to 1999. He is currently a Professor of speech communication technology at School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University. His research interests are analysis and parameterization of speech production, parametric speech synthesis, spectral modeling of speech, speech enhancement, and cerebral processing of speech.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Science (Technology)
Licentiate of Science (Technology), Information Technology
Master of Science (Technology), Information Technology
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Research Output
Analysis and classification of phonation types in speech and singing voice
Kadiri, S. R., Alku, P. & Yegnanarayana, B., 2020, In : Speech Communication. 118, p. 33-47 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Analysis and Detection of Pathological Voice using Glottal Source Features
Kadiri, S. & Alku, P., Feb 2020, In : IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 14, 2, p. 367-379 8926347.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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ASVspoof 2019: a large-scale public database of synthetic, converted and replayed speech
Wang, X., Yamagishi, J., Todisco, M., Delgado, H., Nautsch, A., Evans, N., Sahidullah, M., Vestman, V., Kinnunen, T., Aik Lee, K., Juvela, L., Alku, P., Peng, Y-H., Hwang, H-T., Tsao, Y., Wang, H-M., Le Maguer, S., Becker, M., Henderson, F., Clark, R. & 20 others, , 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Computer Speech and Language. 64, 101114.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Automatic assessment of intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria from coded telephone speech using glottal features
Nonavinakere Prabhakera, N. & Alku, P., Jan 2020, In : Computer Speech and Language. 65, 17 p., 101117.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Automatic intelligibility assessment of dysarthric speech using glottal parameters
Nonavinakere Prabhakera, N. & Alku, P., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Speech Communication. 123, p. 1-9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Projects
Speech-based biomarking of heart failure
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Interdisciplinary research on statistical parametric speech synthesis
Murtola, T., Bollepalli, B., Nonavinakere Prabhakera, N., Juvela, L., Airaksinen, M., Bäckström, T. & Alku, P.
01/01/2018 → 24/01/2020
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Interdisciplinary research on statistical parametric speech synthesis
01/01/2015 → 24/01/2020
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Interdisciplinary research on statistical parametric speech synthesis
Juvela, L., Airaksinen, M., Bollepalli, B., Bäckström, T., Pohjalainen, J., Kakouros, S., Gowda, D., Jokinen, E. & Alku, P.
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2017
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Computational modeling of language acquisition
Laine, U., Räsänen, O., Remes, U., Seshadri, S., Das, S., Kakouros, S., Rasilo, H. & Alku, P.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2016
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Prizes
Academy Professor
Paavo Alku (Recipient), 1 Jan 2015
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic career
IEEE Award for the best student paper in ICASSP’16
Lauri Juvela (Recipient), Bajibabu Bollepalli (Recipient), Manu Airaksinen (Recipient) & Paavo Alku (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2011
Hannu Pulakka (Recipient), Ulpu Remes (Recipient), Santeri Yrttiaho (Recipient), Kalle Palomäki (Recipient), Mikko Kurimo (Recipient) & Paavo Alku (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2016
Manu Airaksinen (Recipient), Bajibabu Bollepalli (Recipient), Lauri Juvela (Recipient), Zhizheng Wu (Recipient), Simon King (Recipient) & Paavo Alku (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Activities
Evaluation of promotion to Associate Professor
Paavo Alku (Examiner)21 Oct 2019
Activity: Examination types › Statement of assessment of professorship
Promotion to Reader
Paavo Alku (Examiner)31 Jan 2018
Activity: Examination types › Statement of assessment of professorship
Opponentship at KTH
Paavo Alku (Examiner)23 Feb 2018
Activity: Examination types › Pre-examination of dissertation or acting as opponent to doctoral students
Promotion to full-professor
Paavo Alku (Examiner)21 Sep 2018
Activity: Examination types › Statement of assessment of professorship
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Journal)
Paavo Alku (Editor)1 Sep 2018 → 31 Dec 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Membership of an editorial board