Dr. Erhard Rank

Development of cochlear implant systems. Analogue and digital signal processing, front-end signal processing and speech coding strategies.

Development and implementation of algorithms for speech and audio processing in DSP-based medical products Management of research and development projects Design and implementation of medical software products Implementation of quality management and risk management

Development of VoIP, research collaboration, funding.

Implementation of Time-Scale Modification algorithms for the Infojet system for structured data input.

Research on signal processing and co-ordination of the final year activities in the project Robust/ COAST.

Research for robust speech recognition in adverse environment, organizing cooperation with academic institutions, project management

Research for robust speech recognition in adverse environment, organizing cooperation with academic institutions, project management

Teaching: Speech Communication, Computational Intelligence, Digital Signal Processing (Laboratory), ... Research: Identification of nonlinear oscillators for speech modeling and synthesis, speech recognition and noise reduction for data entry on mobile devices in harsh acoustic envoronment (European project SNOW - services for nomadic workers)

System development for the customization of speech synthesis using manually optimized prosody

Signal processing for prosodic manipulations in speech synthesis, emotional speech synthesis

Nonlinear oscillators for speech modeling and synthesis

Physical modeling of musical instruments