Lectures, Readings and Homework

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

This course will not have scheduled office hours. Campuswire is recommended; if you’d like to meet in person, please contact the instructor.

Lecture Schedule

Week	Day	Quiz	Topic	Reading	Due
1	M	Aug-24	No Class
	W	Aug-26	No Class
	F	Aug-28	Signal processing (vid1 & vid2)	Baraniuk 2026
2	M	Aug-31	Power spectra and windowing (vid3)	Blackman 1958 B.1-5
	W	Sep-2	Fourier transform of a periodic signal	Mathews 1961
	F	Sep-4	Short-time Fourier transform (vid4)	Allen 1977	HW1
3	M	Sep-7	Labor Day
	W	Sep-9	STRAIGHT	Kawahara & Kawahara
	F	Sep-11	Vocal fold physiology	Flanagan 1968	HW2
4	M	Sep-14	Aperiodicity spectrum (remote; vid5)	Atal and Morise
	W	Sep-16	Vocal tract physiology (remote)	Narayanan 1995
	F	Sep-18	International phonetic alphabet (remote)	Ladefoged 1990
5	M	Sep-21	Articulatory phonology	Browman 1992
	W	Sep-23	Articulography and other sensors	Perkell 1992
	F	Sep-25	Acoustic wave equations	Garrett 2020 6.2	HW4
6	M	Sep-28	One-tube and two-tube resonators (remote)	Dunn 1950
	W	Sep-30	Concatenated-tube models (remote)	Wakita 1973
	F	Oct-2	Exam 1 review (remote)		HW5
7	M	Oct-5	Exam 1
	W	Oct-7	Linear prediction	Atal 1971
	F	Oct-9	SELP and CELP and VSELP and GELP	Rose and Schroeder	HW6
8	M	Oct-12	Transients and clicks and frication and aspiration	Heinz 1961
	W	Oct-14	Zeros in the speech spectrum	Fujimura 1962
	F	Oct-16	Wavenet and Flow	Oord & Prenger	Hw7
9	M	Oct-19	Diffusion and Neural source-filter	Shen and Wang
	W	Oct-21	Griffin-Lim and GAN vocoders	Griffin and Kong
	F	Oct-23	Auditory physiology	Pickles	HW8
10	M	Oct-26	Loudness	Fletcher
	W	Oct-28	Perceptual distortion metrics	Ghitza
	F	Oct-30	Exam 2 review		HW9
11	M	Nov-2	Exam 2
	W	Nov-4	Postfiltering and postnets	Ramamoorthy and Wang
	F	Nov-6	Quantization	Gersho	HW10
12	M	Nov-9	Vector quantization	Gray
	W	Nov-11	Hidden Markov modeling	Rabiner
	F	Nov-13	Connectionist temporal classification	Graves	HW11
13	M	Nov-16	Contrastive predictive coding	van den Oord
	W	Nov-18	Autoregressive language modeling	Schwenk and Sennrich
	F	Nov-20	Encoder-decoder and shallow fusion	Lu and Kannan	HW12
14	M	Nov-30	Residual vector quantization	Kim
	W	Dec-2	Factorized representations	Qian
	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