Course details

Speech Signal Processing

ZRE Acad. year 2010/2011 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Guarantor

Černocký Jan, prof. Dr. Ing. (DCGM)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 2 hrs exercises
  • 12 hrs pc labs
  • 12 hrs projects

Department

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (UPGM)

Study literature

  • Psutka, J.: Komunikace s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Academia, Praha, 1995, ISBN  80-200-0203-0
  • Gold, B., Morgan, N.: Speech and Audio Signal Processing, John Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0-471-35154-7

Fundamental literature

  • Psutka, J.: Komunikace s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Academia, Praha, 1995, ISBN  80-200-0203-0 

Syllabus of lectures

  • Introduction, applications of speech processing, sciences relevant for SP, informational content of speech.
  • Digital processing of speech signals.
  • Speech production and perception, basic notions from psycho-acoustics, applications in speech processing. 
  • Introduction to phonetics, international norms for phoneme mark-up.
  • Pre-processing and basic parameters of speech.
  • Linear-predictive model, spectrum using LP, applications of LP. 
  • Cepstral analysis, Mel-frequency cepstrum.
  • Determination of fundamental frequency.
  • Speech coding
  • Speech recognition - dynamic programming DTW, hidden Markov models HMM
  • Speech synthesis
  • Software and libraries for speech processing.

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  • Parameterization, DTW, HMM.
  • Presentation of projects.

Syllabus of computer exercises

  • Except the last one, Matlab is used in labs.
  • Frames, windows, spectrum, pre-processing.
  • Linear prediction (LPC).
  • Fundamental frequency estimation.
  • Coding.
  • Recognition - Dynamic time Warping (DTW).
  • Recognition - hidden Markov models (Hidden Markov Model Toolkit - HTK).

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MBI, MMI, 1st year of study, Compulsory-Elective
  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MBS, MIS, MMM, any year of study, Elective
  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MGM, 1st year of study, Compulsory
  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MIN, any year of study, Compulsory-Elective
  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MPS, 1st year of study, Elective
  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MPV, MSK, 2nd year of study, Compulsory-Elective
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