ECE 590SIP Graduate Seminar in Speech 2023

This is a one-hour graduate seminar on topics of speech processing. Each student will be required to give a research presentation, either alone or together with a small group.

Day and time: Mondays, 11:00-11:50

Place: ECEB 1015 or via Zoom. Zoom link is posted on CampusWire.

Instructor: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (jhasegaw)

Discussion: CampusWire.

Presentations in this class will be automatically recorded, and will be available, after processing, on MediaSpace.

Schedule

Weekly meeetings this week will include a few formal lectures by the course instructor. Each student is required to give a presentation of either their own research, or of a project undertaken for this course.

Course Schedule

Week

Date

Topic

1

21-Aug

Introduction and Project Brainstorming

2

28-Aug

Lecture: Spectrogram Reading (ipynb; html)

3

4-Sep

Labor Day: No Class

4

11-Sep

Lecture: RNN Transducers

5

18-Sep

Proposal Presentations: Group Projects (no zoom)

6

25-Sep

Proposal Presentations: Individual Projects (no zoom)

7

2-Oct

No Class

8

9-Oct

Lecture: Consonant Features (ipynb; html)

9

16-Oct

Lecture: AI in Speech and Language Therapy

10

23-Oct

Bornali Phukon: Automatic Taxonomy Expansion in IndoWordNet: WordNet of Indian Languages

11

30-Oct

Venkatesh Ravichandran: Speech Technology for Atypical Speech

12

6-Nov

No Class

13

13-Nov

Final Presentations: Heting, Xulin & Jeff

14

20-Nov

Thanksgiving Vacation: No Class

15

27-Nov

Final Presentations: Jialu; Xiuwen & Alara

16

4-Dec

Final Presentations: Steven; Priyam