Lecture Notes

A full set of lecture slides is listed below, including guest lectures. Lectures 3, 4, and 6 have audio links to speech samples presented during the lectures.

Week # LEC # Topics
1 1
2
Course Overview (PDF)
Acoustic Theory of Speech Production (PDF - 1.4 MB)
2 3
4
Speech Sounds (PDF - 3.6 MB)
Speech Sounds (continued)
3 5
6
Signal Representation (PDF - 1.9 MB)
Vector Quantization (PDF - 1.8 MB)
4 7
8
Pattern Classification (1) (PDF - 1.1 MB)
Pattern Classification (2) (PDF)
5 9
10
Search (PDF)
Hidden Markov Modeling (1) (PDF)
6 11
12
Language Modeling (PDF)
Language Modeling (continued)
7 13

 
Guest Lecture by Karen Livescu: Graphical Models (PDF)
Quiz 1
8 14
15
Guest Lecture by Rita Singh: Hidden Markov Modeling (2) (PDF - 2.1 MB)
Guest Lecture by Rita Singh: Hidden Markov Modeling (3) (PDF - 1.4 MB)
9 16
17
Segment-Based ASR (PDF)
Guest Lecture by Lee Hetherington: Finite-State Transducers (PDF)
10 18
19
Acoustic-Phonetic Modeling (PDF)
Robust ASR (1) (PDF)
11 20
21
Guest Lecture by Timothy Hazen: Robust ASR (2) (PDF)
Guest Lecture by Timothy Hazen: Adaptation (PDF)
12 22
23
Speech Understanding (PDF - 1.1 MB)
Guest Lecture by Timothy Hazen: Paralinguistic Information (PDF - 1.0 MB)
13   Quiz 2
No Lecture
14   Term Project Presentations