FI:P071 Computer Acoustics and Phoneti - Course Information

P071 Computer Acoustics and Phonetics

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)

Syllabus

• Motivation and goals.
• Basic concepts, physical and mathematical models.
• Sound digitalization and coding.
• Theory of sound perception and speech production, model of Corti organ.
• Vowels and consonants characterization, formants, coarticulation.
• Basic phonetic elements (phonemes, diphones, alophones, syllable)
• Acoustic signal processing in time and frequency domain.
• Segments, acoustic vectors and coding book.
• Searching in coding book, algebraical models.
• Programming of sound cards.
• Principles of speech synthesis.
• Phonetical transcription, prosody.
• Syntactical, semantical and pragmatical relations.
• Introduction to speech recognition.
• Hidden Markov Models and DTW algorithms.
• Principles of speaker recognition and verification.
• Applications and future challenges.

Language of instruction

Czech

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kopecek/stud.htm

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