ERIS - Eesti teadus- ja arendustegevuse infosüsteem

Elulookirjeldus (CV)
1.	Eesnimi	Meelis
2.	Perekonnanimi	Mihkla
3.	Töökoht	Eesti Keele Instituut
4.	Ametikoht	haldusdirektor
5.	Sünniaeg	06.07.1955 (päev.kuu.aasta)
6.	Haridus	1978 – Tallinna Polütehniline Instituut (Tallinna Tehnikaülikool), automatiseeritud juhtimissüsteemid, elektriinsener 2001 – Tartu Ülikool, eesti keel, MA
7.	Teenistuskäik	1978-1980 Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituut, vaneminsener 1980-1992 Küberneetika Instituudi Arvutustehnika Erikonstrueerimis-büroo, insener-programmeerija 1993- Eesti Keele Instituut, haldusdirektor
8.	Teaduskraad	MA, Tartu Ülikool, 2001
9.	Teaduskraadi välja andnud asutus, aasta
10.	Tunnustused	2003 Eesti Vabariigi teaduspreemia, tehnikateaduste alal "Eesti keele tekst-kõne süntees"
11.	Teadusorganisatsiooniline ja –administratiivne tegevus	EKI teadusnõukogu liige
12.	Juhendamisel kaitstud väitekirjad
13.	Teadustöö põhisuunad	Kõneprosoodia, kõneüksuste andmebaasid, hääleallika analüüs
14.	Jooksvad grandid
15.	Teaduspublikatsioonid	Meelis Mihkla, Krista Kerge & Hille Pajupuu. Statistical modelling of intonation and breaks for Estonian text-to-speech synthesizer. In: Robert Vich (ed.)Electronic Speech Signal Processing. Proceedings of the 16th Conference Joined with the 15th Czech-German Workshop "Speech Processing". Prague, September 26-28. 2005. Studientexte zur Sprachkommunication. Band 36. Dresden: TUDpress 2005, pp.91-98. Mihkla, Meelis 2005. Modelling pauses and boundary lengthenings in synthetic speech. The second baltic conference on human language technologies.Tallinn, April 4–5 2005, Tallinn: 305–310. M. Mihkla, J. Kuusik 2005. Analysis and modelling of temporal characteristics of speech for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis. Linguistica Uralica, 2, 91-97. M. Mihkla, H. Pajupuu, K. Kerge, J. Kuusik 2004. Prosody modelling for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis. The first baltic conference on human language technologies: the baltic perspective. Riga, April 21-22 2004, pp. 127-131. M. Mihkla, J. Kuusik 2004. Statistical modeling of segmental durations for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis. – Proceedings of the Phonetics Symposium 2004 (ed T Seppänen, K. Suomi, J.Toivanen), Oulu, 69-72. Hille Pajupuu, Krista Kerge, Meelis Mihkla. kas-küsimus kõnesünteesis. Keel ja Kirjandus, 10, 2003: 752-759. Meelis Mihkla, Hille Pajupuu, Krista Kerge. Modelling and Perception of the Estonian General Questions with the kas-particle. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona 2003: 539–542. Krista Kerge, Meelis Mihkla, Hille Pajupuu (2002). Modelling the Estonian general questionswith the kas-particle. – Rmt-s Petri Korhonen (ed.) Fonetiikan päivät 2002 – The Phonetics Symposium 2002. Report 67, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, 187-194. Mihkla, M., Meister, E. 2002. Eesti keele tekst-kõne süntees. Keel ja Kirjandus, nr 2, 88–97; nr 3, 173–182. M. Mihkla, E. Meister, A. Eek, J. Lasn, Testing the Quality of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis. 21. Fonetiikan päivat Turku 4.-5.1.2001 - Publications of the Department of Finnish and General Linguistics of the University of Turku: 40-45, Turku 2001. M. Mihkla, E. Meister, I. Kiissel, J. Lasn, Evaluation the Quality of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Diphone Corrector for the TTS System. – Proceedings of the International Workshop Dialogue’2001. Computational Linguistics and Its Applications (ed. A.S.Narin’yani), vol.2 (Applications):385-390, Aksakovo 2001. M. Mihkla, E. Meister, J. Lasn, Quality Evaluation of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis - Proceedings of International Workshop SPECOM'2001 : 163-166, Moscow 2001.

viimati muudetud: 06.10.2005

Curriculum Vitae (CV)
1.	First Name	Meelis
2.	Surname	Mihkla
3.	Institution	Institute of Estonian Language
4.	Position	assistant director
5.	Date of birth	06.07.1955 (day.month.year)
6.	Education	1978 - Tallinn University of Technology, automatic control systems, engineer 2001 - University of Tartu, Estonian language, MA
7.	Research and professional experience	1978-1980 Institute of Language and Literature, engineer 1980-1992 Institute of Cybernetics, engineer-programmer 1993- Institute of Estonian Language
8.	Academic degree	MA, University og Tartu
9.	Dates and sites of earning the degrees
10.	Honours/awards
11.	Research-administrative experience
12.	Supervised dissertations
13.	Current research program	speech prosody, databases of speech units, analysis of voice source
14.	Current grant funding
15.	List of most important publications	Meelis Mihkla, Krista Kerge & Hille Pajupuu. Statistical modelling of intonation and breaks for Estonian text-to-speech synthesizer. In: Robert Vich (ed.)Electronic Speech Signal Processing. Proceedings of the 16th Conference Joined with the 15th Czech-German Workshop "Speech Processing". Prague, September 26-28. 2005. Studientexte zur Sprachkommunication. Band 36. Dresden: TUDpress 2005, pp.91-98. Mihkla, Meelis 2005. Modelling pauses and boundary lengthenings in synthetic speech. The second baltic conference on human language technologies.Tallinn, April 4–5 2005, Tallinn: 305–310. M. Mihkla, J. Kuusik 2005. Analysis and modelling of temporal characteristics of speech for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis. Linguistica Uralica, 2, 91-97. M. Mihkla, H. Pajupuu, K. Kerge, J. Kuusik 2004. Prosody modelling for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis. The first baltic conference on human language technologies: the baltic perspective. Riga, April 21-22 2004, pp. 127-131. M. Mihkla, J. Kuusik 2004. Statistical modeling of segmental durations for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis. – Proceedings of the Phonetics Symposium 2004 (ed T Seppänen, K. Suomi, J.Toivanen), Oulu, 69-72. Hille Pajupuu, Krista Kerge, Meelis Mihkla. kas-küsimus kõnesünteesis. Keel ja Kirjandus, 10, 2003: 752-759. Meelis Mihkla, Hille Pajupuu, Krista Kerge. Modelling and Perception of the Estonian General Questions with the kas-particle. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona 2003: 539–542. Krista Kerge, Meelis Mihkla, Hille Pajupuu (2002). Modelling the Estonian general questionswith the kas-particle. – Rmt-s Petri Korhonen (ed.) Fonetiikan päivät 2002 – The Phonetics Symposium 2002. Report 67, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, 187-194. Mihkla, M., Meister, E. 2002. Eesti keele tekst-kõne süntees. Keel ja Kirjandus, nr 2, 88–97; nr 3, 173–182. M. Mihkla, E. Meister, A. Eek, J. Lasn, Testing the Quality of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis. 21. Fonetiikan päivat Turku 4.-5.1.2001 - Publications of the Department of Finnish and General Linguistics of the University of Turku: 40-45, Turku 2001. M. Mihkla, E. Meister, I. Kiissel, J. Lasn, Evaluation the Quality of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Diphone Corrector for the TTS System. – Proceedings of the International Workshop Dialogue’2001. Computational Linguistics and Its Applications (ed. A.S.Narin’yani), vol.2 (Applications):385-390, Aksakovo 2001. M. Mihkla, E. Meister, J. Lasn, Quality Evaluation of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis - Proceedings of International Workshop SPECOM'2001 : 163-166, Moscow 2001.

last updated: 06.10.2005