Calendar

Week # LEC # Topics Assignments
1 1
2
Course Overview
Acoustic Theory of Speech Production
2 3
4
Speech Sounds
Speech Sounds (continued)
Acoustic Theory
3 5
6
Signal Representation
Vector Quantization
Speech Sounds
4 7
8
Pattern Classification (1)
Pattern Classification (2)
Signal Representation
5 9
10
Search
Hidden Markov Modeling (1)
Acoustic Modeling
6 11
12
Language Modeling
Language Modeling (continued)
Introduction to HMMs
7 13

Graphical Models
Quiz 1
Language Modeling
8 14
15
Hidden Markov Modeling (2)
Hidden Markov Modeling (3)
Graphical Models
9 16
17
Segment-Based ASR
Finite-State Transducers
HMM (2)
10 18
19
Acoustic-Phonetic Modeling
Robust ASR (1)
Segment-Based ASR
11 20
21
Robust ASR (2)
Adaptation
Term Project
12 22
23
Speech Understanding
Paralinguistic Information
Term Project
13 Quiz 2
No Lecture
Term Project
14 Term Project Presentations Term Project