EEL6586: Syllabus

EEL 6586 - AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING - Spring 1999

Instructor: John G. Harris
Office: NEB 453
Phone: (352) 392-2652
Email: harris@cnel.ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/analog/harris.html
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 9:30am-11am

TA: Kevin M. Jones
Office: NEB 288
Phone: N/A
Email: jones@cnel.ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/jones
Office hours: Tuesday 2pm, Thursday 3pm.

Prerequisite: EEL5701

Class Meeting: MWF 8th period (3pm-3:50pm) in FEEDS STUDIO CSE E-118

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

Required textbook: Deller, Proakis, Hansen, Discrete-time Processing of Speech Signals, Macmillan, 1993. This book is out of print. You can purchase a copy from the University Copy Center at 1620 W. Univ Av. Phone: 372-7436, open 24 hours.

Reference Books:
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. It is possible to get breadth sequence credit for this course, talk to me if you are interested. 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, February 26, 1999.
• Final project due April 21, 1999.