Gábor Olaszy

electrical engineer, phonetician

Gábor Olaszy (1943) graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the BME, Hungary (1967), PhD in Linguistics (1988), DSc (2003), habilitated at BME (2004).

Research interests: acoustic structure of speech, phonetic modeling, design and construction and testing of text-to-speech conversion systems. One of the developers of the ProfiVox Hungarian text-to-speech software. Author of www.magyarbeszed.hu speech research website. Books: 6 in Hungarian. Publications in Hungarian and in English: 211 items.

Kálmán Abari

computer engineer, behavioral analyst

Kálmán Abari (1971), assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Debrecen.

His research interests include speech processing (PhD, 2013), the psychological applications of mathematical statistics, the theory of knowledge spaces, statistical machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He has been participating in the domestic education of the R statistical program package for more than 10 years. He is also currently leading the development of a gamified language teacher curriculum.