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EC-803 (C) · Speech Processing/Official Syllabus

Speech Processing (EC-803 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Basic Concepts of Speech Processing

  • Speech Fundamentals: Articulatory Phonetics - Production and Classification of Speech Sounds
  • Acoustic Phonetics - acoustics of speech production
  • Review of Digital Signal Processing concepts; Short-Time Fourier Transform, Filter-Bank and LPC Methods
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Unit 2

Speech Analysis

  • Features, Feature Extraction and Pattern Comparison Techniques: Speech distortion measures
  • mathematical and perceptual - Log Spectral Distance, Cepstral Distances, Weighted Cepstral Distances and Filtering, Likelihood Distortions, Spectral Distortion using a Warped Frequency Scale
  • LPC, PLP and MFCC Coefficients
  • Time Alignment and Normalization - Dynamic Time Warping, Multiple Time - Alignment Paths
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Unit 3

Speech Modeling

  • Hidden Markov Models: Markov Processes, HMMs - Evaluation, Optimal State Sequence - Viterbi Search, Baum-Welch Parameter Re-estimation, Implementation issues
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Unit 4

Speech Recognition

  • Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition: Architecture of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system - acoustics and language models - ngrams, context dependent sub-word units
  • Applications and present status
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Unit 5

Speech Synthesis

  • Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Concatenative and waveform synthesis methods, subword units for TTS
  • intelligibility and naturalness - role of prosody, Applications and present status

Reference Books

  • Fundamentals of Speech Recognition
  • Speech and Language Processing - An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition
  • The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
  • Discrete-Time Speech Signal Processing - Principles and Practice
  • Speech Recognition
  • Speech and audio signal processing
  • Statistical Methods of Speech Recognition
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