Faculty staff

Ing. Zdeněk Kadlec, Dr.

Subject-specialist librarian, Central Library

Correspondence Address:
Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno

Office: bldg. E/03007
Arna Nováka 1
602 00 Brno

Phone:	+420 549 49 3825
E‑mail:

Name, first names, scientific degrees

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

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. s. 191-196. 1994. info
KADLEC, Zdeněk. A Comparison of Several Approaches to Vowel Recognition by Kohonen Feature Maps. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. "Biosignal '94". Brno. s. 148-149. 1994. info
KADLEC, Zdeněk. Pitch-Synchronous Vocoder for Speech Storing. In 4. Tschechisch-Deutscher Workshop "Sprachverarbeitung". Prague, 1994. info

2004/11/16