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School of Language Technology
Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology
Speech Technology Level 1 (2008)
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Term paper - Fall semester 2008
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, after a discussion with one of the teachers in the Speech Technology course. It is also possible to make a joint paper.
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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October 2008 |
Deciding the 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 16, 2009 |
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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Jody Foo
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Speech recognition vocabulary design - issues and methods
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Sigrún Ammendrup
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Joakim Gustafson
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Gopal Ananthakrishnan
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Recognition of Unsupervised Segments of Speech
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Timur Svirava |
Kjell Elenius
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Sigrún Ammendrup
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Study of Emotions in dialogue settingd
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Timur Svirava
Oscar Täckström |
Joakim Gustafson
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Timur Svirava
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Type-of-speech and intra-speaker variation of consonants
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Sigrún Ammendrup
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David House
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Oscar Täckström
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Transductive Learning for Speaker Annotation
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Jody Foo
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Mats Blomberg
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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
Björn Granström bjorn-at-speech.kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/~bjorn
- 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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