UCL - Introduction to speech processing

[CLIG2260]

[22.5h] 5 credits

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the basic concepts of speech processing and to discuss the performances of speech processing applications (as well for speech synthesis applications as for voice recognition applications).

Main themes

The main goal of this course i stp provide students with a series of basic knowledge blocks, to give them a top-down view of speech processing. Instead of entering the details of each problem, we give a structured overview of the area. In that respect, the course is aimed at making students able to pass a technical job interview.

Content and teaching methods

It is composed of 5 chapters :
Introduction to speech
Speech modeling and analysis
Speech Coding
Speech recognitions
Speech synthesis

Method
The course is composed of an e-Learning part, available on DVD, complemented by a presential part, which makes it possible for students to ask questions to the professor (and vice-versa).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation
The DVD part of the course contains a detailed list of practical objectives. The written examination will be based on these objectives. No course notes will be available for this examination.

Support
The course is available on DVD and is composed of 9 hours of video documents (10 to 15 minutes each) organized in Chapter through a web page. Students can see the powerpoint slides with a good definition, as well as videos of the professor. Each video is augmented with attached documents, available on the DVD. Multiple Choice Questions are also available, as well as open questions.
Course notes are provided in the DVD.