
Katri Hiovain-Asikainen
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About me
PhD | Speech technologist | Phonetician | Linguist | Vocalist
Education

Helsingin konservatorio
2016 - 2020Classical singing
Sibelius-lukio
2007 - 2010
Keski-Uudenmaan musiikkiopisto
2006 - 2010Classical guitar
University of Helsinki
2017 - 2023Doctor of Philosophy - PhD PhoneticsI defended my PhD dissertation on prosodic change in Northern Sámi. During my studies, I also focused on speech technology, linguistic typology and university pedagogy.

University of Helsinki
2010 - 2016Master's degree LinguisticsEstonian language and culture, Fenno-Ugric linguistics, Translation, Phonetics, North Saami language
Experience

Tuglas-seura
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012Summer InternAssisting work for Baltic library, tourism, translation, language courses, administration in the centre of Estonian culture in Helsinki.

University of Tampere
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014Research AssistantCollecting lexical material from Finno-Ugric languages

University of Helsinki
Nov 2014 - Dec 2020PhD thesis at the Phonetics and Speech synthesis group on North Saami phonetics, majority language influence in spoken language, prosody, digital language typology.Teaching laboratory/experimental courses on speech recording, speech analysis, data management etc. Supervising BA and MA level students. Research assistant for Academy of Finland research project, DigiSami, which developed dialog systems for North Saami.
Doctoral Researcher
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020Research Assistant
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017

Kielikone Oy / Sanakirja.fi
Dec 2016 - Jan 2020Freelance dictionary editorNorth Saami online dictionary

UiT- The Arctic University of Norway
Jan 2021 - nowEngineerDeveloping speech technology (TTS and ASR) for very low-resource (Saami) languages
Licenses & Certifications
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Elements of AI
University of HelsinkiMay 2021
Languages
- esEstonian
- fiFinnish
- enEnglish
- swSwedish
- noNorth saami
- geGerman
- noNorwegian
- ruRussian
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