PB095 Introduction to Speech Processing

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 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. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:50 B204
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
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
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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