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
Course Info
Learning Resource Types
group_work
Projects
![X-ray of person speaking.](/courses/6-542j-laboratory-on-the-physiology-acoustics-and-perception-of-speech-fall-2005/a9347f1c94d5b94def27766901adba59_6-542jf05.jpg)
X-ray of person speaking taken from the lab assignment on cineradiographic motion pictures.