Graduate School of Language Technology
Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology
Speech Technology Level 1 (2008)
The class is organized by
Mats Blomberg, mail: matsb at speech.kth.se,
Web: http://www.speech.kth.se/~matsb
Kjell Elenius, mail: kjell at speech.kth.se,
Web http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjell
Joakim Gustafson, mail: jocke at speech.kth.se,
Web:
http://www.speech.kth.se/~jocke/ (Responsible for the class)
David House, mail: davidh at speech.kth.se,
Web: http://www.speech.kth.se/~davidh
KTH, CSC, Dept. Speech, Music and Hearing, Stockholm, Sweden
The start of the class will be in Göteborg September 9, 2008 followed by one meeting 28/10-29/10 and closing seminar in January 2008 both in Stockholm.
Overview
The aim of this course is to give an overview of speech technology, some of the underlying theories and models and how these are integrated into applications, such as multimodal dialog systems.
The course is intended for both students with a limited knowledge of the field and for students with a more extensive background in speech technology. The students will be expected to take a more active part in the discussion of current research. The course is also meant to contribute to the common platform for students with different backgrounds in the Nordic graduate school of language technology supported by NorFA.
The course is divided into 5 parts:
1. Introductory lectures
2. Reading the listed material
3. Individual practical exercises
4. Preparing a term paper
5. Closing seminar including discussions, practical exercises and
presentation of the term papers.
Introductory lectures will give an overview of the field with an emphasis on basic concepts and standard methods.
Individual practical exercises will include speech analysis and specific tasks related to speech technology. The results should be reported and discussed during the fall period.
During the course a term paper should be prepared by each student. The paper should be presented during the closing seminar in January (Stockholm). The closing seminar includes: Exercises, Presentation of term papers, and Discussion of the reading material and the term papers.
Schedule
Introductory lecture slides will be linked to each topic.
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Date |
Time |
Content |
Teacher |
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9/9 |
08.00-10.00 |
Introduction |
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David House |
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9/9 |
10.00-15.00 |
Multimodal speech Synthesis |
Joakim Gustafson |
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17/10 |
Phonetic practical exercise due |
David House |
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28/10-29/10 |
Fantum, TMH, KTH, Stockholm |
Speech and Speaker Recognition |
Mats Blomberg |
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2008 |
Fantum, TMH, KTH, Stockholm |
Closing seminar |
All teachers |
Individual practical exercises
Phonetic
analysis: Each student should carry out an acoustic investigation
of their own speech. This exercise will make the student familiar
with speech analysis and the basic structure of speech sounds. The
results should be summarised and sent to David House. The practical
exercise will be discussed by all students during the second
meeting 28-29/10.
More
information here
During the second meeting and the closing seminar additional obligatory exercises on speech recognition and multimodal speech synthesis will be included.
Solutions to at least three questions in the Speech Recognition exercisesshould be submitted to Mats Blomberg before December 1.
Term paper
During the course a term paper should be prepared by each student and reviewed by two other students. The paper should be presented during the closing seminar.
Closing seminar
The closing seminar includes: Presentation of term papers; Discussion of the reading material and the term papers.
Reading material
Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, Keith Johnson, ISBN# 0-631-20094-0 (a second edition is also available)
An Introduction to Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Thierry Dutoit, ISBN# 0-7923-7923-4498-7
Holmes, John and Wendy Holmes (2001 2nd): Speech Synthesis and Recognition, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-7484-0856-8 (hardback), ISBN 0-7484-0857-6 (paperback)
Michael F McTear (2002) Spoken dialogue technology: enabling the conversational interface. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 34 , Issue 1 (March 2002), pp. 90 - 169. http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~cbdg23/interests.html
Additional papers
A selection of papers and other publications will be used as additional reading material for each subtopic. More information here
Requirements
In order to pass the course the students must: Complete the practical exercises; Prepare and present the term paper; Review two term papers; Participate actively in the discussions in the closing seminar.
Links to earlier Speech Technology 1: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Last updated: January 7, 2008