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Undergraduate Course: Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryA foundation course in speech processing for students of linguistics, informatics, and related subjects.
Course description Syllabus: Fundamentals of speech processing (familiarity with waveforms, spectra, spectrograms, resonance, formants, human speech production and perception., perceptually-motivated frequency scales, time vs. frequency representations; conversion between the two, the Fourier transform, source-filter model of speech, hands on experience), speech recognition (components of a typical recogniser, parameterisation of the speech signal, dynamic time warping, distance measures, the Hidden Markov Model, the generative model paradigm, simple probability theory, conditional and joint probabilities, Bayes theorem, Gaussian probability density function, continuous density HMMs, monophone models with Gaussian observation densities, Viterbi algorithm for recognition, training from fully labelled data, Viterbi training, bigram language models), speech synthesis (components of a typical text-to-speech synthesiser, text analysis, phonology, finite-state automata, POS tagging, lexicon, phrasing, accents, F0, learning from data, CART models, waveform generation, concatenative methods - TD-PSOLA and linear prediction, F0 and duration modification).
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Informatics 2A - Processing Formal and Natural Languages (INFR08008) OR LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods (LASC08018)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs none
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2018/19, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 18, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 9, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 167 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Closed book exam (50%)
Two written assignments based on laboratory work (20% and 30%)

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Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Speech Processing (Hons)2:00
Learning Outcomes
Intended Learning Outcomes. After taking this module, students should be able to: give an overview of the components of state-of-the art speech recognition and speech synthesis systems; understand the main concepts and what each component does; describe a simple version of each component; see what the difficult problems are in recognition and synthesis. They will also: use tools for visualising and manipulating speech waveforms; experiment with two state-of-the-art speech technology systems; put experimental methodology into practice; see how knowledge and skills from different areas come together in an interdisciplinary field.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.speech.zone/courses/speech-processing/
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Contacts
Course organiserProf Simon King
Tel: (0131 6)51 1725
Email: Simon.King@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Susan Hermiston
Tel: (0131 6)50 3440
Email: Susan.Hermiston@ed.ac.uk
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