This section contains a complete set of lecture slides for the course, 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

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