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School of Language Technology
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Graduate School of Language Technology
Speech Technology Level 1 (2006)
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Term paper - Fall semester 2006
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 2006 |
Deciding the time table |
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November 15 |
Topic selection together
with a teacher |
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December 4 |
Reviewers selected (please volunteer) |
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December 22 |
Electronic submission of
paper to reviewers and the teacher |
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January 8, 2007 |
Electronic submission of
reviews to author |
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January 19 |
Electronic submission of
final paper to the reviewers, the teacher and |
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January 25-26, 2007 |
Presentation of paper at
the closing seminar at KTH |
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
Rolf Carlson rolf-at-speech.kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf
- Current challenges in dialog system design, a literature study
- Modeling natural conversation in a dialog system
- Processing of expressive speech in spoken dialog systems
Term Papers
Preliminary Titles
to be decided
Term Papers and Closing Seminar
Link
to the Closing Seminar January 2005 with link to papers
Link
to the Closing seminar January 2004 with links to papers
Link to the Closing seminar January 2003 with links to papers
Link to the Closing seminar January 2002 with links to papers.
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