Rolf Carlson
TMH - Speech, Music and Hearing KTH
KTH
Speech Music and Hearing.
Lindstedtsvägen 24
SE 100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Mobile: +46 708350176
mailto: rolfca at kth.se
Some information
about Rolf Carlson
Rolf Carlson started his career in
speech research at the Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, 1969. He
received his doctoral degree with the thesis “Perception and Synthesis of
Speech”, 1977. He was employed 1978/1979 in the Natural Language Processing
Group, RLE, MIT and 1990/1991 in the Spoken Language Systems Group, Laboratory
of Computer Science, MIT. Since 1995, he is Professor in Speech Technology at
KTH. He was deputy director of the affiliated Centre for Speech Technology
(CTT). He was director of graduate studies 1999-2003. He was Deputy Director of
the Department 2004-2010. Rolf Carlson became Professor Emeritus 2011.
His interests cover all aspects of
Speech Technology, with special attention on speech synthesis and spoken dialog
systems. Rolf Carlson has published more than 200 scientific papers. He has
been invited speaker at several conferences and workshops. He was awarded
Chester Carlson's (Xerox) research prize, 1995. Rolf Carlson became Speech
Communication Association (ISCA) fellow 2008.
Rolf Carlson was a member of the
board of the International Speech Communication Association 1997-2005. Other
assignments include: Advisory Editor of Journal of Phonetics 1989-1994;
Editorial Board for Journal of Speech Communication 1997-2010; Scientific
program co-ordinator for the Congress of Phonetic Sciences XIII, Stockholm,
1995; Member of the Eurospeech 2001 organizing committee; Member of the
Academic board of the National Graduate School of Language Technology 2001-2010
and also one of the initiators of this school; Member of IEEE James Flanagan
Speech and Audio Processing Award committee 2008-2010; Member of the Interspeech
2017 organizing committee.
Publications
(2022). Another half a century in speech
research. Unpublished. [pdf]