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School of Language Technology
Speech Technology Level 1 (2009)
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Term paper - Fall semester 2009
During the course each student should prepare a term paper and present it at
the closing seminar.
Examples of topics are listed below. It is possible to choose another topic, which we encourage. The topic you choose should be discussed with the appropriate teacher in the Speech Technology course.
The term paper should be reviewed by two reviewers also participating in the course.
The paper may not exceed 10 printed pages.
Preliminary
Time table
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November 16 |
Topic selection together
with a teacher |
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November 24 |
Reviewers selected (please volunteer) |
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December 17 |
Electronic submission of
paper to reviewers and the teacher |
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January 6, 2009 |
Electronic submission of
reviews to author |
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January 13, 2009 |
Electronic submission of
final paper to the reviewers, the teacher and |
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January 19, 2010 |
Presentation of paper at
the closing seminar at KTH |
Term Papers
Preliminary Titles
Author
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Title
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Two
Reviewers
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Teacher
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Possible
topics
Acoustic Phonetics
David House davidh-at-speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~davidh
- Phonetic cues for phrase boundaries and discourse finality
- Phonetic variation and speaking styles
- Effects of topicalization on the realization of phonetic focus.
- Relationship between interrogative mode and phrase-initial intonation
- Effects of speaker attitude on phrase-final intonation
Speech Synthesis
Joakim Gustafson jocke-at-speech.kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/~jocke
- Data-driven methods in speech synthesis
- Comparison of different speech synthesis methods.
Speech Recognition
Kjell Elenius kjell at speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjell
- Issues in designing successful speech recognition applications
- Acoustic features for automatic speech recognition
- Issues in large vocabulary speaker independent speech recognition
- The historical evolution of speech recognition
Speaker verification
Mats Blomberg matsb at speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~matsb
- Similarities and differences between speech recognition and speaker verification.
- Deploying automatic speaker verification. Choices affecting security and user acceptance in automatic speaker verification.
Dialog Systems
Joakim Gustafson jocke-at-speech.kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/~jocke
- Current challenges in dialog system design, a literature study
- Modeling natural conversation in a dialog system
- Processing of expressive speech in spoken dialog systems
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