Course detail

Modern Methods of Speech Processing

FIT-MZDAcad. year: 2010/2011

Not applicable.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

0

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Dr. Ing. Jan Černocký

Department

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (UPGM)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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Prerequisites

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Co-requisites

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Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

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Course curriculum

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Work placements

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Aims

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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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Recommended optional programme components

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Prerequisites and corequisites

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Basic literature

  • Psutka, J.: Komunikace s s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Academia, Praha, 1995
  • Gold, B., Morgan, N.: Speech and audio signal processing, John Wiley & Sons, 2000
  • Texty z http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cernocky/speech/

Recommended reading

  • Moore, B.C.J., : An introduction to the psychology of hearing, Academic Press, 1989
  • Jelinek, F.: Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, 1998
  • Fukunaga, K.: Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition, Academic Press, 1990
  • Vapnik, V. N.: Statistical Learning Theory, Wiley-Interscience, 1998
  • Dutoit, T.: An Introduction to Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4 Doctoral

    branch DVI4 , any year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme VTI-DR-4 Doctoral

    branch DVI4 , any year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Dr. Ing. Jan Černocký

Syllabus

  1. Review of notions: signal vectors and parameter matrices, basic statistics.
  2. Stochastic modeling of parameters, modeling of time by state sequences.
  3. Hidden Markov models: basic structure, training.
  4. Recognition of speech using HMM: Viterbi search, token passing.
  5. Pronunciation dictionaries and language models.
  6. Speech production and derived parameters: LPC, Log area ratios, line spectral pairs.
  7. Speech perception and derived parameters: Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, Perceptual linear prediction.
  8. Temporal properties of hearing - RASTA filtering.
  9. Training the feature extractor on the data - linear discriminant analysis.
  10. Speech databases: standards, contents, speakers, annotations.
  11. Vocoders and modeling of the excitation: multi-pulse and stochastic excitations (GSM coding).
  12. CELP coding: long-term predictor, codebooks. Very low bit-rate coders.
  13. Current methods of speaker identification and verification.