SIN04 Speech interaction and social networks

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Luděk Bártek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:50 A217
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
The main objective of the course is to present basic technologies of the dialogue communication and its application in social networks.
Syllabus
  • Speech communication and its social consequences.
  • Speech synthesis - the basic principles and phases of the time domain speech synthesis, phonetic transcription, prosody. Practical tests of freely available text-to-speech synthesis systems. SSML - basics of syntax and its fields of application.
  • Speech recognition - basic principles, tools for improvement of ASR accuracy, semantic interpretation of recognized speech.
  • Human to human and human to computer dialogue communication, social aspects of dialogue systems.
  • Principle terms - dialogue, utterance, turn, dialogue system, dialogue strategy. Methods of dialogue system implementation. IT supported methods of human to human and human to computer dialogue communication.
  • W3C VoiceBrowser Activity - standards. Simple W3C VoiceBrowser Activity standards based dialogue systems design using the system and mixed initiative dialogue strategy.
  • User modelling, modelling of computer emotions using a prosody.
  • Social networks - social networking basics, types of social networks, state of the art of dialogue/discussion in the social networks, future prospects of dialogue communication in the social networks.
  • Team project in the area of social networks and dialogue communication.
Literature
  • LAMSER, Václav. Komunikace a společnost : úvod do teorie společenské komunikace. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1969, 298 s. info
  • PSUTKA, J. Komunikace s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Praha: Academia, 1995. info
  • Handbook of multimodal and spoken dialogue systems :resources, terminology and product evaluation. Edited by Dafydd Gibbon - Inge Mertins - Roger K. Moore. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, xviii, 519. ISBN 0-7923-7904-7. info
  • KNOKE, David. Social network analysis. Edited by Song Yang - David Knoke. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008, viii. ISBN 9781412927499. info
  • SCOTT, John. Social network analysis :a handbook. Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 1991, x, 210 p. ISBN 0-8039-8481-2. info
  • Models and methods in social network analysis. Edited by Peter J. Carrington - John Scott - Stanley Wasserman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xiv, 328. ISBN 0521600979. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical Lectures with practically oriented seminars.
Assessment methods
Each student presents a lecture on a selected topic and works in a team of 2 or 3 students on a project. The project is argued at the end of the semestr.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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