Éva Székely

Éva Székely is an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on expressive speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, and the application of synthetic speech in human-robot and conversational systems. She teaches the course 'Human Perception for Information Technology (DM2350)'.

Her research interests include adapting synthetic speech to situational context, analyzing prosody and pragmatic functions, and investigating ethical implications of synthetic voice design. Notable projects involve developing tools like ConnecTone for modular AAC systems and CreakVC for voice modulation. She has contributed to foundational studies on gender diversity in synthetic voices and the impact of disfluencies on speaker perception.

Recent work explores spontaneous speech synthesis, controllable TTS with neural HMMs, and the integration of gesture and speech synthesis using flow matching techniques. Her research often bridges technical innovation with human-centered design principles.