11-752 - Speech II
Phonetics, Prosody, Perception, and Synthesis

Spring 2004

Office Hours

Wednesdays, 2-4pm.
TA: Antoine Raux (antoine at cs).
My office is NSH4508 (x8-2067).

Syllabus

Perception and Prosody (Prof. Eskenazi)
Speech Synthesis (Prof. Black)

Jan 13Class presentation - Acoustic phonetics
Jan 15Acoustic theory of speech production (Prof. Stern)Slides:color B&W
Jan 20Acoustic phonetics
Jan 22
Jan 27Acoustic phonetics/Prosody
Jan 29
Feb 3Prosody
Feb 5Variability in the Speech Signal (Antoine)Slides
Feb 10Prosody
Feb 12
Feb 17Spectrogram test
Feb 19Project 1 work
Feb 24Project 1 presentations
Feb 26
Mar 2Speech Synthesis: Introduction, History, and Overview
Mar 4
Mar 9Spring break
Mar 11
Mar 16Text processing, homograph disambiguation, text modes
Mar 18
Mar 23Lexicons, LTS rules
Mar 25
Mar 30Prosody modeling: phrasing, intonation, and duration
Apr 1
Apr 6Waveform synthesis: diphones and unit selection synthesis
Apr 7
Apr 13Voice building: new languages and limited domains
Apr 15
Apr 20Signal processing, Concept-to-speech, Evaluation
Apr 22
Apr 27Talking heads, singing, and other applications
Apr 29
May 4Project 2 presentations
May 6

Project 1 (Phonetics and Prosody)

"What you hear is not necessarily what you see"

Project 2 (Speech Synthesis)

Students' subjects will be posted here...