Mr Aimilios Chalamandaris

Mr Aimilios Chalamandaris is Managing Director at Innoetics Ltd and member of the Speech Synthesis Team, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena R.C.

Mr Chalamandaris will argue that although speech synthesis is a research field that has been active for more than a century, it is only rather recently that it took a big leap with the fusion of AI algorithms and the availability of abundant computing power. Modern speech synthesis is largely dependent on AI, both at the linguistic level (notably for text processing and the normalization of input text) and at the signal processing level. In fact, nearly all speech synthesis paradigms already employ machine learning components or have been recently re-casted in such terms. Innoetics' high-end text-to-speech technologies and systems heavily rely on AI to achieve near-natural speech and boost their performance.

Biographical Note:
Aimilios Chalamandaris obtained the Diploma in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2000 and carried out his postgraduate studies at London Imperial College in Telecommunications and Digital Signal Processing in 2001. His research interests are text to speech synthesis, emotional and expressive synthesis, voice transformation, pattern recognition, music recognition and natural language processing. He is a member of the Speech Synthesis team at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing - ATHENA Research Center since 2001 and he is a co-founder and Managing Director of INNOETICS, the leading company in voice and text-to-speech solutions in Greece.