Speech Synthesis and Recognition Systems

The course covers the basics of automatic speech recognition and synthesis systems.

The first part is dedicated to speech recognition and covers the following topics:

Data collection for speech recognition – Acoustic feature extraction – Acoustic modeling - Language modeling - Evaluation and optimization of a speech recognition system – Overview of state-of-the-art speech recognition systems - Development of a speech recognition system

The second part of the course is about text-to-speech synthesis and will cover the following topics:

Data collection for speech synthesis - Types of speech synthesis systems - Text processing for Speech synthesis – Speech modeling for parametric speech synthesis- State-of-the-art speech synthesis systems - Development of a speech synthesis system

Last, the course will cover the basics of the application of these technologies in speech-to-speech translation and spoken dialogue systems.