This calendar provides lecture topics covered in the course, along with links to lecture notes and assignments. Some of the lecture notes contain links to sample audio files.

WEEK # LEC # TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS 1 1 2 Course Overview (PDF) Acoustic Theory of Speech Production (PDF - 1.4 MB) 2 3 4 Speech Sounds (PDF - 3.6 MB) Speech Sounds (continued)  Acoustic Theory (PDF) 3 5 6 Signal Representation (PDF - 1.9 MB) Vector Quantization (PDF - 1.8 MB) Speech Sounds (PDF) 4 7 8 Pattern Classification (1) (PDF - 1.1 MB) Pattern Classification (2) (PDF) Signal Representation (PDF) 5 9 10 Search (PDF) Hidden Markov Modeling (1) (PDF) Acoustic Modeling (PDF) 6 11 12 Language Modeling (PDF) Language Modeling (continued) Introduction to HMMs (PDF) 7 13 Graphical Models (PDF) Quiz 1 Language Modeling (PDF) 8 14 15 Hidden Markov Modeling (2) (PDF - 2.1 MB) Hidden Markov Modeling (3) (PDF - 1.4 MB) Graphical Models (PDF) 9 16 17 Segment-Based ASR (PDF) Finite-State Transducers (PDF) HMM (2) (PDF) 10 18 19 Acoustic-Phonetic Modeling (PDF) Robust ASR (1) (PDF) Segment-Based ASR (PDF) 11 20 21 Robust ASR (2) (PDF) Adaptation (PDF) Term Project 12 22 23 Speech Understanding (PDF - 1.1) Paralinguistic Information (PDF - 1.0 MB)   Term Project 13 Quiz 2 No Lecture Term Project 14 Term Project Presentations Term Project

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