Carl Gunnar Michael Fant (October 8, 1919 – June 6, 2009[1]) was a leading researcher in speech science in general and speech synthesis in particular who spent most of his career as a professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He was a first cousin of the actors and directors George Fant and Kenne Fant.
Gunnar Fant received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH in 1945. He specialized in the acoustics of the human voice, measuring formant values, and continued to work in this area at Ericsson and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also took the initiative of creating a speech communication department at KTH, unusual at the time.
Fant's work led to the birth of a new era of speech synthesis with the introduction of powerful and configurable formant synthesizers. In 1960 he published the source-filter model of speech production, which became widely used. In the 1960s, Gunnar Fant's Orator Verbis Electris (OVE) competed with Walter Lawrence's Parametric Artificial Talker (PAT)[2] in creating lifelike speech synthesis.
In later years, Gunnar Fant remained active in the area of speech synthesis, focusing mainly on research on prosody.
Fant received honorary doctorates from the Grenoble University (1978) and from Stockholm University (1988), and several other awards. In 1989, he was the inaugural recipient Scientific Achievement Medal of the International Speech Communication Association.[3] He also received the Swedish Academy Margit Påhlson award, and the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award (2003).[4] He was a member
of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.[5]
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^Memorial Tributes, Volume 14. National Academies Press. Jun 20, 2011. p. 77. ISBN 9780309152181. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
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understanding of speech production, perception, and processing. 1980 – GunnarFant – for scientific work in providing coherence and theoretical underpinnings...
Promising Filmmaker Fant-Asia Film Festival Award for Best European/North – South American Film Fant-Asia Film Festival Award for Best Film Fant-Asia Film Festival...
Åke Ohberg. Edvard Persson as Grimme Jens Tekla Sjöblom as Cilla George Fant as Ored Jensen Oscar Ljung as Per Jensen Åke Ohberg as Nils Jensen Carl Ström...
Poor Millionaires (director) 1936: The Ghost of Bragehus (director) 1937: Fant (director) 1937: To levende og en død (writer, director, editor) 1939: Whalers...
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