Graduate School of Language Technology

Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology

Speech Technology Level 1 (2007)

 

Meeting October 15 – 16, 2007

 

Monday, October 15

Speech and Speaker Recognition

 

 

10.00   Speech Recognition 1: Acoustic Analysis, Modelling, Search
                        Kjell Elenius

 

11.00   Speech Recognition 2: Training, Adaptation, Presentation of exercises

                        Mats Blomberg

 

            Solutions to at least three questions in the Speech Recognition exercises distributed during the meeting should be submitted to Mats Blomberg before December 1.

 

 

12.00   Lunch

 

13.15   Speech Recognition 3: Finite State Transducers for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition

                        Alec Seward

 

13.45   Speaker Verification

                        Mats Blomberg

 

14.15 - Discussion of the phonetic analysis assignments

David House

 

14.45 - Discussion of term paper assignments

All teachers

 

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

 

15.30 – 18.00 Speech Recognition Laboration

                        Alec Seward

 

18.30                              Pizza

TMH Lunch room

Tuesday, October 16

Spoken Dialog Systems and Synthesis

 

 

9.00 – 11.30    Dialog systems

                        Joakim Gustafson

 

11.30 – 12.30 Lunch

 

12.30 – 14.00  Speech synthesis practical – Basement computer room

                        Björn Granström

                       

14.00 – 14.30 Presentation/discussion of results from practical - Basement computer room

 

14.00 - 15.00   Final discussion