Introduction to speech processing

lclig2260  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Introduction to speech processing
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Dutoit Thierry;
Language
French
Main themes
The main goal of this course is to provide students with a series of basic knowledge blocks, to give them a top-down view of speech processing. Instead of entering the details of each problem, we give a structured overview of the area. In that respect, the course is aimed at making students able to pass a technical job interview.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the basic concepts of speech processing and to discuss the performances of speech processing applications (as well for speech synthesis applications as for voice recognition applications).
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
It is composed of 5 chapters : Introduction to speech, Speech modeling and analysis, Speech Coding, Speech recognitions, Speech synthesis.
Teaching methods
The course is composed of an e-Learning part, available on DVD, complemented by a presential part, which makes it possible for students to ask questions to the professor (and vice-versa).
Evaluation methods
The DVD part of the course contains a detailed list of practical objectives. The written examination will be based on these objectives. No course notes will be available for this examination.
Other information
The course is available on DVD and is composed of 9 hours of video documents (10 to 15 minutes each) organized in Chapter through a web page. Students can see the powerpoint slides with a good definition, as well as videos of the professor. Each video is augmented with attached documents, available on the DVD. Multiple Choice Questions are also available, as well as open questions. Course notes are provided in the DVD.
Faculty or entity
LING


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language

Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures

Master [120] in Linguistics