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Semester 1
Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061)
Subject
Language Sciences and Linguistics
College
CAHSS
Credits
20
Normal Year Taken
3
Delivery Session Year
2023/2024
Pre-requisites
Visiting students should have completed at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above . We will only consider University/College level courses.
Course Summary
A foundation course in speech processing for students of linguistics, informatics, and related subjects.
Course Description
In this course, students investigate the fundamentals of speech signal processing, text-to-speech systems, and automatic speech recognition. This is a fast-paced course which draws on topics from linguistics, informatics, and engineering, including the following: Foundations in phonetics and signal processing: sound and waveforms, the connection between speech acoustics and speech articulation, time versus frequency representations of speech, the Discrete Fourier Transform and frequency spectrums, the source-filter model of speech. Text-to-speech synthesis: components of a concatenative text-to-speech synthesiser, introduction to automatic text analysis, waveform generation and speech modification methods. Automatic Speech recognition: components of a typical speech recognition system, speech feature representations, measuring similarity in speech using probabilistic methods, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for ASR, training and testing probabilistic models with speech data. The course is delivered as a combination of lectures, an online forum, videos, readings, and practical exercises in the lab. The course work will be based on lab exercises where students investigate an existing text-to-speech system, and build a simple automatic speech recognition system. Students deciding whether to take this course should visit https://speech.zone/courses/speech-processing/ where much of the course material can be found.
Assessment Information
Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%
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