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.

Under the ``readings’’ column, many of the links lead to a paywall. If have access to the UIUC library system, it will provide you with access to the same article at no charge; go to https://https://www.library.illinois.edu/, enter the title of the article you want, then, when requested, authorize your netid.

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 spectrum (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 (sol)
3	M	Sep-7	Labor Day
	W	Sep-9	STRAIGHT	Kawahara & Kawahara
	F	Sep-11	Vocal fold physiology	Flanagan 1968	HW2 (sol)
4	M	Sep-14	Aperiodicity spectrum (remote 5pm; vid5)	Atal and Kawahara
	W	Sep-16	Vocal tract physiology (remote 5pm)	Narayanan 1995
	F	Sep-18	International phonetic alphabet (remote 5pm)	Ladefoged 1990	HW3 (sol)
5	M	Sep-21	Articulatory phonology	Browman 1992
	W	Sep-23	Acoustic wave equations	Garrett 2020 10.2
	F	Sep-25	Two-tube models	Arai 2009	HW4 (sol)
6	M	Sep-28	No Class
	W	Sep-30	No Class
	F	Oct-2	No Class
7	M	Oct-5	Concatenated-tube models	Mullen 2006
	W	Oct-7	Linear prediction	Atal 1971
	F	Oct-9	Stochastic and Adaptive Codebooks	Schroeder and Rose	HW5
8	M	Oct-12	Turbulent Excitation	Heinz 1961
	W	Oct-14	Zeros in the speech spectrum	Fujimura 1962
	F	Oct-16	Wavenet and Flow	Oord & Prenger	HW6
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	HW7
10	M	Oct-26	Loudness	Fletcher
	W	Oct-28	Perceptual distortion metrics	Ghitza
	F	Oct-30	Postfiltering and postnets	Ramamoorthy and Wang	HW8
11	M	Nov-2	Quantization	Gersho
	W	Nov-4	Vector quantization	Gray
	F	Nov-6	Hidden Markov modeling	Rabiner	HW9
12	M	Nov-9	Connectionist temporal classification	Graves
	W	Nov-11	No Class
	F	Nov-13	Contrastive predictive coding	van den Oord	HW10
13	M	Nov-16	Autoregressive language modeling	Schwenk and Sennrich
	W	Nov-18	Encoder-decoder and shallow fusion	Lu and Kannan
	F	Nov-20	Residual vector quantization	Kim	HW11
14	M	Nov-30	Factorized representations	Qian
	W	Dec-2	Final project presentations
	F	Dec-4	No Class		HW13
15	M	Dec-7	No Class
	W	Dec-9	No Class