FI:PB095 Intro to Speech Processing - Course Information

PB095 Introduction to Speech Processing

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

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

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.

Timetable

Tue 16:00–17:50 X Datový projektor, Tue 16:00–17:50 B007

Prerequisites (in Czech)

! P095 Speech Synthesis and Recognition, and Applications I

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

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)

Course objectives

Introduction to speech processing oriented to human-computer interaction, i.e. especially to speech synthesis, speech recognition and dialogue systems.

Syllabus

• Introduction
• Brief history
• State of the art
• Physical and physiological acoustics
• Creation and perception of human speech
• Phonetics a phonology
• Signal processing
• Principles of speech synthesis
• Speech segments and concantenative speech synthesis
• Prosody, emotions
• Principles of speech recognition
• Statistical approaches
• Modeling by means of HMM
• Language modeling
• Human-human and human-computer communication
• Dialogue
• Voice XML
• User modeling
• Dialogue systems and applications

Literature

• PSUTKA, Josef. Komunikace s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Praha: Academia, 1995, 287 s. ISBN 8020002030. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Samostatná práce na zvoleném problému v rámci semináře.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

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

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