Katri Hiovain-Asikainen

Katri Hiovain-Asikainen

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  • About me

    PhD | Speech technologist | Phonetician | Linguist | Vocalist

  • Education

    • Helsingin konservatorio

      2016 - 2020
      Classical singing
    • Sibelius-lukio

      2007 - 2010
    • Keski-Uudenmaan musiikkiopisto

      2006 - 2010
      Classical guitar
    • University of Helsinki

      2017 - 2023
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Phonetics

      I 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 - 2016
      Master's degree Linguistics

      Estonian language and culture, Fenno-Ugric linguistics, Translation, Phonetics, North Saami language

  • Experience

    • Tuglas-seura

      Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
      Summer Intern

      Assisting work for Baltic library, tourism, translation, language courses, administration in the centre of Estonian culture in Helsinki.

    • University of Tampere

      Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
      Research Assistant

      Collecting lexical material from Finno-Ugric languages

    • University of Helsinki

      Nov 2014 - Dec 2020

      PhD 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 2020
      • Research Assistant

        Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
    • Kielikone Oy / Sanakirja.fi

      Dec 2016 - Jan 2020
      Freelance dictionary editor

      North Saami online dictionary

    • UiT- The Arctic University of Norway

      Jan 2021 - now
      Engineer

      Developing speech technology (TTS and ASR) for very low-resource (Saami) languages

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