PB125 Speech Communication and Dialogue Systems

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2012
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. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:50 B206
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
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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 modelling, segment selection, acoustic modelling, quality assessment
  • Speech Recognition - acoustic modelling, command recognition, large vocabulary speech recognition, speaker identification and verification, language modelling
  • Dialogue Systems - dialogue systems design using W3C Voice Browser Activity Standards, information retrieval dialogue systems, dialogues strategies, user modelling
  • 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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011.
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