The course consists of lectures, practical assignments and the writing of a term paper on an individually selected topic.
The following topics are treated in the course:
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Contents | Lecture Notes |
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1st Lecture |
Slides_lecture_1 |
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2nd Lecture |
Slides_lecture_2 HTK Tutorial |
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3rd Lecture |
Slides_lecture_3_Ch_11 Slides_lecture_3_Ch_12 |
February 6 |
10-12, 13-15, 15-16 | Utställningen, TMH | Closing
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Date |
Content |
Nov 21 | Select topic for term paper |
December 5 | Mail solutions to exercises to Mats |
December 12 | Mail selection of 2 papers for review |
December 26 |
Author mail draft to reviewer |
January 17 | Mail review to author |
January 24 | Mail final paper to Mats |
In order to pass the course the students must:
Exercises on speech recognition problems will be presented during the second lecture, Nov 7. The exercises will also be downloadable from Exercises
Send solutions not later than December 5 to Mats Blomberg matsb@speech.kth.seSolutions will be presented during the closing seminar.
During the course a term paper shall be prepared by each student and
be
presented during the closing seminar. The paper shall be reviewed by
two
fellow students.
Report your choice of topic and preliminary title by November 21 to
Mats
Report your choice of 2 titles for review before Dec 12.
Author |
Title/Topic |
Reviewer |
Reviewer |
Daniel Elenius |
Adaptation
techniques for children's speech recognition |
Anna |
Susanne |
Genevieve Gorell |
Language Modelling for Spoken Dialogue Systems; Grammar-Based and Robust Approaches Compared and Contrasted | Gustav |
Magnus |
Leif Grönqvist |
Robust
Methods for Automatic Transcription and Alignment of Speech Signals |
Per-Anders |
Daniel |
Per-Anders Jande |
Automatic
Detailed Transcription of Speech Using Forced Alignment and Naïve Pronunciation Rules |
Leif |
Genevieve |
Magnus Nordstrand |
"The role of prosody for speech recognition" | Anna |
Susanne |
Anna Sandell |
An exploration of hidden Markov models | Leif |
Magnus |
Susanne Schötz |
Automatic prediction of speaker age using CART | Per-Anders |
Gustav |
Gustav Öquist |
Speech
Recognition for Context Awareness |
Daniel |
Genevieve |
The closing seminar includes:
The closing seminar will take
place at TMH, KTH 6 February 2004.
Time |
Name |
Title |
10.15 |
Mats |
Presentation of solutions to the
exercises |
11.00 |
Break |
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11.10 |
Anna |
An exploration of hidden Markov models |
11.35 |
Daniel |
Adaptation techniques for children's speech recognition |
12.00 |
Lunch |
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13.10 |
Genevieve |
Language Modelling for Spoken Dialogue Systems; Grammar-Based and Robust Approaches Compared and Contrasted |
13.35 |
Leif |
Robust Methods for Automatic Transcription and Alignment of Speech Signals |
14.00 |
Per-Anders | Automatic
Detailed Transcription of Speech Using Forced Alignment and Naïve Pronunciation Rules |
14.25 |
Susanne |
Automatic prediction of speaker age using CART |
14.50 |
Coffee break |
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15.10 |
Gustav |
Speech Recognition for Context Awareness |
15.35 |
Discussion |
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16.00 |
End |
Mats Blomberg matsb@speech.kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/~matsb
Dept. Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
How
to
get to TMH and some travel information
http://www.speech.kth.se/info/location.html