Instructor: Murat Saraçlar (http://busim.ee.boun.edu.tr/~murat)

Reference Textbooks:

Benesty, Sondhi, and Huang (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Speech Processing, Springer.

Huang, Acero and Hon, Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall.

Thomas F. Quatieri, Discrete-Time Speech Signal Processing, Prentice Hall.

Rabiner and Schafer, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Prentice Hall.

Rabiner and Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Prentice Hall.

Deller, Proakis, and Hansen, Discrete Time Processing of Speech Signals.

Prerequisites: EE 473

Course URL: http://busim.ee.boun.edu.tr/~murat/teaching/EE578

Topics:

• Sound and Human Speech Production and Perception (HAH 2.1, RS 3.1.1, RJ 2.1, 2.2)
  
• Phonetics and Phonology (HAH 2.2, RS 3.1.2, RJ 2.4)
• DSP Review (HAH 5.1-5.5, RS 2,  if and as needed)
• Acoustical Model of Speech Production (HAH 6.2, RS 3.2)
• Acoustical Transducers (HAH 10.2)
• Speech Signal Representations
• Short-Time Fourier Analysis (HAH 6.1)
• Filterbanks and Wavelets (HAH 5.7)
• Linear Predictive Coding (HAH 6.3)
• Cepstrum (HAH 6.4)
• Perceptually Motivated Representations (HAH 6.5)
• Formants and Pitch (HAH 6.6 and 6.7)
• Speech Coding (HAH 7)
• Text-to-Speech (Speech Synthesis)
• Speaker Recognition
• Speech-to-Text (Speech Recognition)
  

• Homeworks require MATLAB programming
• Semester project requiring MATLAB or C or C++ programming

• Midterm Examination %30
• Homeworks %30
• Semester project %40