Communication Acoustics: An Introduction to Speech, Audio and Psychoacoustics

About the Authors

Ville Pulkki has been working in the field of audio from 1995. In his PhD thesis (2001) he developed a method to position virtual sources for 3D loudspeaker set-ups after researching the method using psychoacoustic listening tests and binaural computational models of human hearing. Later he worked on the reproduction of recorded spatial sound scenarios, on the measurement of head-related acoustics and on the measurement of room acoustics with laser-induced pressure pulses. Currently he holds a tenure-track assistant professor position in Aalto University and runs a research group with 18 researchers. He is a fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and has received the AES Publication Award. He has also received the Samuel L. Warner memorial medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He has a background in music, having received teaching from the Sibelius Academy in singing and audio engineering alongside instruction in various musical instruments. He has also composed and arranged music for many different ensembles. He enjoys being with his family, renovating his summerhouse and dancing to hip hop.

Matti Karjalainen (1946–2010) began his career as an associate professor of acoustics at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in the 1980s. He maintained a long and prolific career as a researcher and visionary leader in acoustic and audio signal processing, both as a pioneer of Finnish language speech synthesis and developer ...