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Weekly Schedule
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CSE551/651 Structure of Spoken Language
Fall 2005
Mondays/Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m., Room WCC 407, Wilson Clark
Center
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John-Paul Hosom
'hosom' at cse.ogi.edu
503.748.1456
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Course Description
See the course description located at
http://www.csee.ogi.edu/courses/CSE551/.
Syllabus in Microsoft
Word format
Syllabus in Adobe PDF
format
Course Overview
Speech is considered a key component in the future of human-computer
communication. However, the success of speech recognition and
text-to-speech synthesis systems depends on development of the
technology as well as further research advances. Research and
development of spoken-language technology is facilitated by an
understanding of the acoustic and symbolic structure of language, as
well as the capabilities and limitations of current systems. This
course will present some of what is known about speech in terms of
phonetics, acoustic-phonetic patterns, and models of speech perception
and production. The goals are for the student to understand how speech
is structured, understand and identify acoustic cues (especially in
different phonetic contexts), and understand how this information may
be relevant to automatic speech recognition or generation systems.
Textbook
The recommended textbook is:
A
Course in Phonetics
Peter
Ladefoged
Harcourt
Brace, Fort Worth, 1993 (or later editions)
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The lecture notes will provide the necessary material, but the
textbook provides valuable supplementary information. The
textbook should be on reserve at the library.
Reading
I recommend reading the following chapters of the
textbook prior to the midterm:
Chapter 1: Articulatory Phonetics
Chapter 2: Phonology and Phonetic
Transcription
Chapter 4: English Vowels and
Phonological Rules
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•Chapter 7: Place and Manner of Articulation
Chapter 10: Syllables and Suprasegmental Features: only the section on
Syllables
Reading the textbook is not required for the midterm, but the
information may be useful and complementary to the lecture notes.
For the rest of the course, the following chapters may provide
interesting supplemental material:
Chapter 10: Syllables and
Suprasegmental Features (rest of the chapter)
Chapter 5: English Words and Sentences
Chapter 11: Linguistic Phonetics
Grading Policy
Grading is based on daily short homework exercises, a class project, a
midterm, and a
final. The homework is worth about 27% of the final grade, the
project is worth about 18%, the midterm is worth 25%, and the final is
worth 30%. No programming is required for any of the exams, the
homework, or the project. The topic of the project is flexible
and may, if the student wishes, involve programming.
Weekly Schedule
Lecture notes are added as links to power-point files.
| Week Number |
Links
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Lecture Topics |
Week 1:
Sep. 26, 28
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lecture1
spec-vowels1
HW1: vowels
lecture2
spec-vowels2
HW2: vowels
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- Course Overview
- Visualization of the Speech Signal
- Introductory Phonetics
- Spectrogram Reading: Vowels and Diphthongs
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Week 2:
Oct. 3, 5 |
HW3: vowels
lecture3
HW4: vowels
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- Phonetic Symbols
- Physiology of Speech Production
- Spectrogram Reading: Vowels and Diphthongs
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Week 3:
Oct. 10, 12 |
Monday: present fricatives;
spectrograms of vowels
HW5: fricatives
lecture4: manner
of articulation
spec-fricatives1
HW6: fricatives
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- Spectrogram Reading: Vowels & Diphthongs
- Characteristics of Manner of Articulation
- Spectrogram Reading: Fricatives
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Week 4:
Oct. 17, 19
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lecture5:
place of articulation and transcription
HW7: fricatives
spec-fricatives2
lecture6b: stops
HW8: stops
spec-stops1
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- Characteristics of Place of Articulation
- Phonetic Transcription
- Characteristics of Stops
- Spectrogram Reading: Stops
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Week 5:
Oct. 24, 26
(DST: 1 hr shift Oct. 30)
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lecture6:
phonological
processes
HW9: stops
HW10: stops
lecture7:
syllables, neutralization, coarticulation
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- Phonological Processes
- Syllable Structure
- Vowel Neutralization
- Coarticulation
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Week 6:
Oct. 31,
Nov.2
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Midterm
lecture7:
characteristics of nasals
spec-nasals1
HW11: nasals
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- Midterm
Oct 31st (?) in-class
- Go over midterm in class
- Characteristics of Nasals
- Spectrogram Reading: Nasals
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Week 7:
Nov. 7, 9 |
lecture
8: mathematical descriptions of speech
HW12: nasals
lecture 9:
source-filter model
HW13: nasals
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- Mathematical Descriptions of the Speech Signal
- Spectrogram Reading: Nasals
- Source-Filter Model of Speech
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Week 8:
Nov. 14, 16
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lecture
10: sound perception, part I
lecture 10b: approximants
HW14: approximants
spec-approx1
lecture 11: sound
perception, part II
HW 15: approximants
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- Sound Perception, Part I
- Spectrogram Reading: Approximants
- Sound Perception, Part II
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Week 9:
Nov. 21, 23
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HW 16:
approximants
spec-affricates
lecture
12: speech perception: facts (Nov 23)
lecture 12b: affricates
HW 17: affricates
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- Sound Perception, Part II con't
- Spectrogram Reading: Approx, con't
- Speech Perception
- Spectrogram Reading: Affricates
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Week 10:
Nov. 28, 30
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lecture
13: speech perception: theories
HW 18: affricates
lecture 14:
text-to-speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition
final spectrogram practice
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- Theories of Human Speech Recognition
- Text-to-Speech Technology
- Automatic Speech Recognition Technology
- Practicing spectrogram reading for final exam (text documentation)
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Finals Week
Dec. 5 - 9
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final (take home)
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- Take-home final due by midnight, 9-Dec-2005
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Previous Year's Lecture Notes
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