ECE 537 Speech Processing Fundamentals ================================================================ Development of an intuitive understanding of speech processing by the auditory system, in three parts. I): The theory of acoustics of speech production, introductory acoustic phonetics, inhomogeneous transmission line theory (and reflectance), room acoustics, the short-time Fourier Transform (and its inverse), and signal processing of speech (LPC, CELP, VQ). II): Psychoacoustics of speech perception, critical bands, masking (JNDs), and the physiology of the auditory pathway (cochlear modeling). III): Information theory entropy, channel capacity, the confusion matrix, state models, EM algorithms, and Bayesian networks. Presentation of classic papers on speech processing and speech perception by student groups. Pre-Requisites: Signal Processing (ECE 310, 401, or equivalent) and Random Variables (ECE 313, CS 361, STAT 410 or equivalent) Instructor: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (jhasegaw) Recommended Textbook: `Theory and Applications of Digital Speech Processing `_, 1st Edition by Rabiner and Schafer .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :caption: Contents: quizzes project On-line Tools ------------- * `CampusWire `_ will be used for on-line question answering. If you need the code to enter this site, send an e-mail to the course instructor. * `Gradescope `_ will be used for weekly written homework, exams, project proposal, and project writeup. * Mediaspace will have videos of past lectures. * There will be two mid-terms. Instead of a final exam, there will be a final project. * Our logo this semester is Figure 1.1 from the classic 1963 textbook `The Speech Chain `_ by Peter Denes and Elliot Pinson. Grades ---------------- Your cumulative score for the semester is a weighted sum of component scores, with the following weights: * 30%: Weekly Written Homework * 30%: Final Project * 20%: Exam 1 * 20%: Exam 2 Grade cutoffs will be approximately 90% for A-, 75% for B-, 60% for C-.