FI:PB125 Dialogue Systems - Course Information
PB125 Speech Communication and Dialogue Systems
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2011
- 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
- Fri 12:00–13:50 B203
- 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
- there are 23 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Work on current topics from the area of human-computer speech communication is the main objective of the course, which has seminar form. On the beginning of the course, the students choose a relevant problem and their task is to find a solution to it. In the end of the course, their results are presented in the form of short talks. The students obtain the abilities that are needed for developing dialogue systems and a basic overview in speech synthesis and recognition.
- 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
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and practises, where the group projects are solved.
- Assessment methods
- Individual work on a problems from the selected area.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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