Lectures

Lectures will be held MWF 12:00-12:50 in 3020 ECEB.

Office hours are shared with ECE 401: every Thursday, 3-5pm, at the URL specified on CampusWire.

Lecture Schedule

Week

Day

Quiz

Topic

Due

1

M

Aug-24

No Class

W

Aug-26

No Class

F

Aug-28

Signal processing review

2

M

Aug-31

The multiplication/convolution duality

W

Sep-2

Windowed Fourier transform of a periodic signal

F

Sep-4

Short-time Fourier transform

HW1

3

M

Sep-7

Labor Day

W

Sep-9

STRAIGHT

F

Sep-11

Vocal fold physiology

HW2

4

M

Sep-14

Aperiodicity spectrum: Multipulse and multiband (remote)

W

Sep-16

Vocal tract physiology (remote)

F

Sep-18

International phonetic alphabet (remote)

HW3

5

M

Sep-21

Articulatory phonology

W

Sep-23

Articulography and other sensors

F

Sep-25

Acoustic wave equations

HW4

6

M

Sep-28

One-tube and two-tube resonators (remote)

W

Sep-30

Concatenated-tube models (remote)

F

Oct-2

Exam 1 review (remote)

HW5

7

M

Oct-5

Exam 1

W

Oct-7

Linear prediction

F

Oct-9

MPLPC and MELP and CELP and VSELP and GELP

HW6

8

M

Oct-12

Transients and clicks and frication and aspiration

W

Oct-14

Zeros in the speech spectrum

F

Oct-16

Wavenet and Flow

Hw7

9

M

Oct-19

Diffusion and Neural source-filter

W

Oct-21

Griffin-Lim and GAN vocoders

F

Oct-23

Auditory physiology

HW8

10

M

Oct-26

Loudness

W

Oct-28

Perceptual distortion metrics

F

Oct-30

Exam 2 review

HW9

11

M

Nov-2

Exam 2

W

Nov-4

Postfiltering and postnets

F

Nov-6

Quantization

HW10

12

M

Nov-9

Vector quantization

W

Nov-11

Hidden Markov modeling

F

Nov-13

Connectionist temporal classification

HW11

13

M

Nov-16

Contrastive predictive coding

W

Nov-18

Autoregressive language modeling

F

Nov-20

Acoustic-language model fusion and encoder-decoder

HW12

14

M

Nov-30

Residual vector quantization

W

Dec-2

Factorized representations

F

Dec-4

Final project presentations

HW13

15

M

Dec-7

Final project presentations (remote)

W

Dec-9

Final project presentations (remote)

F

Dec-11

HW14