PB125 Speech Communication and Dialogue Systems

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Luděk Bártek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Wed 18:00–19:50 B411
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
Course objectives
Each student should solve one problem in the field of man-machine speech communication. Student choose the topic at the beginning of the course (either their own topic or one of the proposed) and they work on the solution in the rest of the course. The course is ended by a short presentation of each project.
Syllabus
  • The topics include (but are not limited to): Speech Synthesis - text preprocessing for speech synthesis, grapheme-to-phoneme transcription, prosody modeling, segment selection, acoustic modeling, quality assessment Speech Recognition - acoustic modeling, command recognition, large vocabulary speech recognition, speaker identification and verification, language modeling Dialogue Systems - VoiceXML, dialogue systems design, information retrieval dialogue systems, dialogues strategis, user modeling Other Related Topics - speech-oriented applications for handicapped, speech standards and interfaces, presentation of results
Literature
  • DUTOIT, Thierry. An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, vii, 285 s. ISBN 0-7923-4498-7. info
  • RABINER, Lawrence R. and Biing-Hwang JUANG. Fundamentals of speech recognition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall PTR, 1993, xxxv, 507. ISBN 0-13-015157-2. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Samostatná práce na zvolených problémech v rámci semináře.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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