GSLT: Speech Technology 1

Fall semester 2001
Graduate School of Language Technology

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Introductory lectures
Reading material
Term paper
Practical assignments
Closing seminar
Requirements
Teachers

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 aimed both at students with limited knowledge of the field, for whom it is compulsory within GSLT, and at students with a more extensive background in speech technology, who will be expected to take a more active part in the discussion of current research. In this way, the course is meant to contribute to the common platform for students with different backgrounds within GSLT.

The course is divided into 5 parts:
Introductory lectures; Reading the listed material; Individual practical exercise; Preparing a term paper; and a Closing seminar including discussions, practical exercises and presentation of the term papers.

Introductory lectures 17-19 September in Göteborg

These lectures will give an overview of the field with an emphasis on basic concepts and standard methods.

Inroductory lecture slides are linked to each topic.

Date

Time

Content

Teacher

17/9

10-12.30

Introduction
Acoustic Phonetics

Rolf Carlson
David House

17/9

14-16.30

Speech Synthesis

Björn Granström

18/9

10-12.30

Speech Recognition

Kjell Elenius

18/9

14-16.30

Speech Recognition
Speaker Verification

Kjell Elenius

19/9

10-12.30

Dialog Systems

Rolf Carlson

 

Room: H423 (Humanisten, Göteborg University)

Reading material

Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, Keith Johnson, ISBN# 0-631-20094-0

An Introduction to Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Thierry Dutoit, ISBN# 0-7923-7923-4498-7

Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music, Ben Gold & Nelson Morgan ISBN# 0-471-35154-7

Michael F McTear (2001) Spoken dialogue technology: enabling the conversational influence. Submitted to ACM Computing Surveys.
http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~cbdg23/interests.html

A selection of papers and other publications will be used as additional reading material for each subtopic.

Term paper

During the course a term paper should be prepared by each student. The paper should be presented during the closing seminar.

More information here

Practical assignments

Each student should carry out an acoustic investigation of their own voice. This exercise will make the student familiar with speech analysis and the basic structure of speech sounds. The results should be summarised and discussed by all students.

More information on Practical assignment – Phonetic analysis

During the closing seminar additional obligatory exercises will be included.

Closing seminar

The closing seminar includes:

The seminar will take place at KTH 14-16 January 2002.

Requirements

In order to pass the course the students must:

Teachers

Rolf Carlson rolf@speech.kth.se (Responsible for the course) http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf
Kjell Elenius kjell@speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjell
Björn Granström bjorn@speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~bjorn
David House davidh@speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~davidh

Dept. Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.speech.kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/info/location.html