GSLT: Speech Technology
1
Fall semester 2002
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
exercises; Preparing a term paper; and a Closing seminar including discussions,
practical exercises and presentation of the term papers.
Introductory
lectures September and October in Göteborg
These lectures will give an overview of the field with an emphasis on basic concepts and standard methods.
Introductory lecture slides will be linked to each topic.
Date |
Time |
Content |
Teacher |
9/9 |
8-10 |
Introduction |
Rolf Carlson |
9/9 |
10-12 |
Kjell Elenius & Mats
Blomberg |
|
9/9 |
13-15 |
Speech Recognition |
Kjell Elenius& Mats
Blomberg |
24/10 |
13-15 |
Björn Granström |
|
25/10 |
8-10 |
Rolf Carlson |
Time Table 2002 - 2003
Week/Date |
Content |
Place |
37 |
Lectures |
GU, Göteborg |
38-42 |
Reading, practical assignments |
|
October 16 |
Last day to mail assignment reports |
|
43 |
Lectures, assignment reports |
GU, Göteborg |
44-5 |
Reading, term paper |
|
December 12 |
Mail draft by author to reviewer |
|
January 9 |
Mail review to author |
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January 26 |
Mail final paper to rolf (KTH) |
|
February 6-7 |
Closing seminar |
KTH, Stockholm |
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.
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, distributed and presented during week 43. More information on Practical assignment – Phonetic analysis
Last day to send results of recognition/verification problems
October 16 to David House davidh@speech.kth.se
Assignments on speech recognition/verification problems will be distributed during the introductory lectures in September. The results should be summarised, distributed and discussed by all students during week 43. The recognition/verification problems can be found on http://www.speech.kth.se/~matsb/GSLT/GSLT_02_ovn_uppg_eng.pdf
Last day to send results of recognition/verification problems
October 16 to Mats Blomberg mats@speech.kth.se
During the closing seminar additional obligatory exercises will be included.
Term paper
During the course a term paper should be prepared by each student. The paper should be presented during the closing seminar.
The closing seminar includes:
In order to pass the course the students must:
Rolf Carlson rolf@speech.kth.se
(Responsible for the course) http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf
Mats Blomberg mats@speech.kth.se http://www.speech.kth.se/~matsb
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