EEL6586: Syllabus

EEL 6586 - AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING - Spring 2001

Instructor: John G. Harris
Office: NEB 453
Phone: (352) 392-2652
Email: harris@cnel.ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/hybrid/harris.html
Office hours: MTW 2-3pm

TA: Mark D. Skowronski
Office: NEB 288
Phone: N/A
Email: markskow@cnel.ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/markskow
Office hours: Thursday and Friday, 1-2:30pm

Prerequisite: EEL5701

Class Meeting: MWF 4th period (10:40-11:30am) in NEB102 and offered on FEEDS

Class Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/hybrid/courses/EEL6586

Required Textbook: Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals (IEEE Press Classic Reissue) by John R. Deller, John H. L. Hansen, John G. Proakis Hardcover Reprint edition (September 1999), IEEE Press; ISBN: 0780353862.

Reference Books:

• Speech Processing and Synthesis Toolboxes by Donald G. Childers, John Wiley & Sons, September 1999; ISBN: 0471349593
• Speech Communications : Human & Machine by Douglas O'Shaughnessy, IEEE Press, Hardcover 2nd edition, 1999; ISBN: 0780334493.
• Speech and Audio Signal Processing : Processing and Perception of Speech and Music by Nelson Morgan and Ben Gold, July 1999, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471351547
• Rabiner and Schafer, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Prentice Hall, 1978.
• Rabiner and Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Prentice Hall, 1994.

Course Topics:
The course covers the basics of speech processing, synthesis, and recognition. Homework assignments include writing Matlab programs to process actual speech signals. Course topics include:

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Fundamentals of speech science

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Modeling speech production

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Short-term processing of speech

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Linear prediction analysis

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Cepstral analysis

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Speech coding and synthesis

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Speech enhancement

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Recognition using templates and DTW

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Recognition using hidden Markov models

Tentative Grade Determination:
1/3 Homework, 1/3 Exam 1, 1/3 Final Project

Key Dates:

• Exam 1, Wednesday March 28, 2001, periods E1-E3, Larsen 239.
• Final project due, April 25, 2001.