EEL6586: Syllabus

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EEL 6586: AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING

SPRING 2008

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: TW 8:00-9:00am
TA: TBA
Prerequisite: EEL5701
Class Meeting: MWF 5th period (11:45-12:35pm) in LAR 239
Class Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/hybrid/courses/EEL6586
Required Textbook: Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals by John Deller, John Hansen and John Proakis, Wiley-IEEE Press Reprint edition (September 21, 1999) ISBN: 0780353862.
Reference Books:

• Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Raj Reddy Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0130226165
• Speech Communications : Human & Machine by Douglas O'Shaughnessy, IEEE Press, Hardcover 2nd edition, 1999; ISBN: 0780334493.
• Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Rabiner and Schafer, Prentice Hall, 1978.
• Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Rabiner and Juang, Prentice Hall, 1994.
• 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
• Discrete-Time Speech Signal Processing: Principles and Practice by Thomas F. Quatieri Publisher: Prentice Hall; ISBN: 013242942X; 1st edition (October 29, 2001)
• Speech Processing and Synthesis Toolboxes by Donald G. Childers, John Wiley & Sons, September 1999; ISBN: 0471349593

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 March 18, period E2-E3, room TBA.
• Final project due April 25, midnight.