CA488 Speech Processing 2

Lectures

• Introduction to the Module

Reading

• Estimation

Reading

• Formants and the Uniform Lossless VT Tube Model

Relevant Links

Waves

• Signals and Sinusoids

Reading

• Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) Analysis

Reading

• Filters

Reading

• Intoduction to Linear Prediction

Reading

• Linear Prediction of Speech

Reading

• Inverse Filtering

Reading

• The Linear Prediction Model of Speech

Reading

Lab Exercises

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5

Support Code

• reflect_pole.m This reflects unstable poles back inside the unit circle on the z-plane

• dft.m This calculates the DFT magnitude and (optionally) phase spectra of a signal

Assignments

• Assignment 1
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• Assignment 1
  Details (MS Word)

Links

• The Internet Institute for Speech and Hearing
• Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
• Centre for Spoken Language Understanding
• Speech Analysis Tutorial
• Speech Research Links
• Recording Tips
• The Official IPA Website

Bibliography

• [DPH93] Deller, J. R., Proakis, J. G. & Hansen J. H. L. (1993) Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, Macmillan
• [GM99] Gold, B. & Morgan N. (1999) Speech and Audio Signal Processing, Wiley
• [HH01] Holmes, J.N. and Holmes, W. (2001) Speech Synthesis and Recognition (Edition 2nd), Taylor and Francis
• [HTK01] The HTK Book (2001), Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
• [Lad96] Ladefoged, P. (1996) Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (Edition 2nd), University of Chicago Press
• [Lad01] Ladefoged, P. (2001) Vowels and Consonants Blackwell
• [JM00] Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. H. (2000) Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall
• [Owe93] Owens, F. J. (1993) Signal Processing of Speech, Macmillan
• [RJ93] Rabiner, L. & Juang, B.-H. (1993) Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Prentice Hall
• [SSA96] Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (1996)