ECE 590SIC: Graduate Seminar in Speech, Spring 2025

This is a one-hour graduate seminar on topics of speech processing.

Meeting Time, Date, Place, and Discussion

Day and time: Wednesdays, 4:00-4:50pm.

Place: ECEB 2015.

Discussion: CampusWire

Expected Participation

The main target of participation this semester will be reading and sharing articles. You will be expected to form groups, each of which will present three or four times during the course of the semester, describing an article that you have read.

Weekly Schedule

Course Schedule

Week

Date

Topic

1

22-Jan

Planning

2

29-Jan

Yueze:Open-Source TTS

3

5-Fe

Yifei Jin: Implantable and Wearable Sensors for Augmentative and Assistive Communication Systems

4

12-Feb

Yurii Halychanskyi: Introduction to Accent Transfer

5

19-Feb

No Class

6

26-Feb

Zhongweiyang Xu: Diffusion Posterior Sampling and Application to Audio/Speech

7

5-Mar

No Class

8

12-Mar

Haolong Zheng: Whisper-AT: Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognizers are Also Strong General Audio Event Taggers

19-Mar

Spring Break

9

26-Mar

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson: Unsolved Problems in Audio Speech and Language Processing

10

2-Apr

Yueze: Preliminary results on voice cloning

11

9-Apr

No Class

12

16-Apr

Jonah Cadena-Perena

13

23-Apr

14

30-Apr

15

7-May