Course Description

The course focuses on experimental investigations of speech processes. Topics include: measurement of articulatory movements, measurements of pressures and airflows in speech production, computer-aided waveform analysis and spectral analysis of speech, synthesis of speech, perception and discrimination of speechlike …

The course focuses on experimental investigations of speech processes. Topics include: measurement of articulatory movements, measurements of pressures and airflows in speech production, computer-aided waveform analysis and spectral analysis of speech, synthesis of speech, perception and discrimination of speechlike sounds, speech prosody, models for speech recognition, speech disorders, and other topics.

  • Two 1-hour lectures per week
  • Two labs per week
  • Brief lab reports
  • Term project, with short term paper
  • No exams
Learning Resource Types
Projects
X-ray of person speaking.
X-ray of person speaking taken from the lab assignment on cineradiographic motion pictures.