Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• Kadlec, Zdeněk, PhD, MSc
  born 1970, Czech Republic

Department/Faculty/University

• Central Library and
• Department of Czech Literature and Librarianship
  Faculty of Arts
  Masaryk University
  A. Novaka 1
  Brno, Czech Republic

Function, current position

• Head of ICT department at Central Library
• Fellow of Department of Czech Literature and Librarianship

Education and academic qualifications

• 1996: PhD in "Electronics, measurement and communication engineering", thesis: "Speech compression using text-to-speech synthesis methods", Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Brno
• 1993: MSc in "Telecommunications", thesis: "Automatic Word Recognition", Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Brno

Professional experience

• 2004 - : Department of Czech Literature and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno, fellow
• 1997 - : Central Library, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno, head of ICT department
• 1994 - 1996: (1/4 time) Department of Radioelectronics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, research worker
• 1993 - 1996: Institute of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Brno, technician

Teaching activities

• 1995 - 1996: lectures and lessons on "Digital Acoustic Signal Processing", Institute of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Brno
• 2004 spring: lectures on "AACR2", Department of Czech Literature and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno
• 2004: lectures on "Library Systems and Standards", Department of Czech Literature and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno

Research activities

• 1994: participation on COST 233 "Prosodics of Synthetic Speech"
• 1994: participation on project "Digital filter and FFT processor synthesis on Motorola signal processors", Ministry of Education program "Education Development", grant no. PV 427
• 1995: participation on University Development Fund project "State Canonic Models of Digital Filter Structures on Signal Processors"
• 1995: Software for Electroacoustic on-board information system EPIS I.Presenatation on Internacional Engineering Fair, Brno, 1995.
• 1997: participation on project "Acoustic Signal Processing Systems on Digital Signal Processors", grant Grant Agency of Czech Republic, No.102/97/0035

Most significant professional accomplishments

• Invited paper: "Isolated Words Recognition with Speaker Adaptation Using Artificial Neuaral Networks", 567. colloquium of circuit, systems and signals theory, 16.11.1994, Institute of Radioelectronics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Major publications

• KADLEC, Zdeněk. Isolated Words Recognition with Speaker Adaptation Using Artificial Neural Networks. In Proc. Int. Conf. "6th Microcomputer School - Neural Networks Theory and Applications". Sedmihorky, 1994. s. 191-196. info
• KADLEC, Zdeněk. A Comparison of Several Approaches to Vowel Recognition by Kohonen Feature Maps. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. "Biosignal '94". Brno, 1994. s. 148-149. info
• KADLEC, Zdeněk. Pitch-Synchronous Vocoder for Speech Storing. In 4. Tschechisch-Deutscher Workshop "Sprachverarbeitung". Prague, 1994. info

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