Seminar Speech Recognition 2002

(Last update: 28-11 2002)
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 Period: September 12th - December 19th (See the schedule and also: Rooster Deeltijdopleiding Informatica. )
Time: 18.45 - 21.45
Place: Room 409 (Presentations and Lectures), Room 410 (Workshops)

Organizers:
Dr Erwin M. Bakker
LIACS Media Lab (LML), Tel. 06 21827989, E-mail: erwin@liacs.nl

Drs Jeroen Eggermont (Teaching Assistant)
LIACS, Room 156a, Tel. 071 5277143, E-mail: jeggermo@liacs.nl

Abstract:
In this seminar all the aspects of a state of the art speech recognition system will be studied. The main goal is to apply our studies to design and develop a speaker independent small vocabulary Dutch speech recognition system.
The participation and contribution of the students is of great importance. There will be several programming assignments, reports, and presentations by the students.

Requirements: C, C++

Grading (5 study points): Design, implementation and presentation of your project, plus other presentations (70% of grade). Class discussions, attendance, and problem sets (30% of grade). It is necessary to be at most of the classes. If you can not be there, you must contact Dr. Bakker (erwin@liacs.nl) before the class.

Book: Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang , Alex Acero , Hsiao-Wuen Hon , Raj Reddy (Hardcover, 980 pages, Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0130226165; 1st edition, April 25, 2001)  

Project Related Links:

Speech Databases

IFA Dutch Corpus
Praat: Speech Editting and Analysis Tool

HMM

Another HMM Introduction

Interesting Other Links:

SAPI's:

XML:

ToolKits:

Spoken Language Applications and User Interface Technologies:

 

 Schedule:
1. 12-9 2002 Introduction + Project Discussions
2. 19-9 2002 Spoken Language Structure. + Project Initialization
3. 26-9 2002 Speech Processing 1 + Project Discussions
4. 3-10 2002 no class
5. 10-10 2002 Speech Processing 2
6. 17-10 2002 Project Design Reports      
7. 24-10 2002 Speech Recognition 1 (5.4-5.5; 6.1,6.3,6.4; 8.2)
8. 31-10 2002 Speech Recognition 2 (8.4,8.5; 9.1-9.3; 9.4,9.5; 9.6) + Project Discussions
9. 7-11 2002 no class
10. 14-11 2002 Speech Recognition 3 (10.1,10.2,10.5; 11.1,11.2; 11.4,11.6)  Project Preliminary Demo's
11. 21-11 2002    CSLU + MS SAPI Workshop
12. 28-11 2002 Text to Speech Systems (12.1,12.2; 12.3,12.4; 13.5)+ Project Integration
13. 5-12 2002 no class
14. 12-12 2002 Applications (16; 17; 18) + (12.3, 12.4, 13.5) + Project Status
15. 19-12 2002 Final Project Presentations

NB The SAPI Workshop will be rescheduled.

Presentations:

NB The presentations made available here are exclusively for students of the
seminar 'Speech Recognition'.

  1. Introduction
  2. Speech Recognition: A Short Overview
  3. Spoken Language Structure
  4. Digital Signal Processing 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
  5. Digital Signal Processing 5.4, 5.5
  6. Speech Signal Representation 6.1, 6.3, 6.4
  7. Hidden Markov Models 8.2

Projects:

  1. Projects: Introduction
  2. Projects: Support  

Preliminary Project Manual (v0.0)

Project Presentations:

Project Results: