Course 11-753: Advanced Lab Speech Recognition and Understanding

Department: Language Technologies Institute (LTI)
Semester: Spring 2001

Time and Place
Time: Fridays 10:00 to 12:00
First day of class: February 7
Place: Interactive Speech Lab 2602 Newell Simon
Grading: pass or fail

About the course 11-753
Instructors
Course Description
Schedule / Syllabus
Readings and Homework

janus prac Sebastian

Helpful Links
SpeechCourse 11-751
Ivica Rogina's Online Course OR (local, updated version)
Janus Recognition Toolkit
UNIX Introduction
Tcl/Tk Manual
Klaus Ries' language model toolkit

Responsible Instructors: Prof. Alex Waibel

Instructors

Instructor 1 Instructor 2
Name Tanja Schultz Monika Woszczyna
Telefon 412 268 8616
E-mail tanja@cs.cmu.edu monika@cs.cmu.edu
Office 2602I Newell Simon
Internet www.cs.cmu.edu/~tanja  www.cs.cmu.edu/~monika


Course Description:
The advanced lab in speech recognition is primarily for graduate students in LTI, CS, Robotics, ECE, HCI, Psychology, or Computational Linguistics, who already attend the speech course 11-751.

Prerequisites:

Permission From Instructor (Undergraduates)

sound mathematical background

knowledge of basic statistics

good computing skills

Abstract:
The technology to allow humans to communicate by speech with machines or by which machines can understand when humans communicate with each other is rapidly maturing. While the 11-751 speech course focussed on an introduction to the theoretical foundations, essential algorithms, major approaches, and strategies for current state-of-the-art systems, the 11-753 speech lab complements the education by concentrating on the experimental practice in developing speech recognition and understanding systems.

Schedule (tentative)
Date Lecturer Topic
Wed Feb 07 Tanja Schultz Introduction, get started
Fri Feb 16 Tanja Schultz Janus and Tcl/Tk Introduction, Objects
Fri Feb 23 Tanja Schultz Pronunciation dictionary, database, word error rate, more Tcl/Tk
Fri Mar 02 Tanja Schultz had been skipped (Tanja was sick)
Fri Mar 09 Tanja Schultz Preprocessing (Mid-semester break)
Fri Mar 16 Tanja Schultz Preprocessing, Acoustic Modeling
Fri Mar 23 Tanja Schultz Acoustic Modeling
Fri Mar 30 ------ ------ Spring Break ------
Fri Apr 06 Tanja Schultz Training CI
Fri Apr 13 Tanja Schultz Training CD
Fri Apr 20 Tanja Schultz Search, Scoring
Fri Apr 27 Monika Woszczyna SAPI - A brief Introduction 1
Fri May 04 Monika Woszczyna SAPI - A brief Introduction 2
To be discussed ALL Wrap-up

Exercises, Readings, and Homework

Practices and Solutions, Exercise 1 - 10


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Members Arthur Jamal Kornel Stan Qin Fei
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Last modified: Mon Aug 20 22:27:21 EDT 2001
Maintainer: tanja@cs.cmu.edu.