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Department of Electrical Engineering - Columbia University

SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING AND RECOGNITION

ELEN E6820 - Spring 2001

Course outline

Note: this outline is provisional, and may be changed to suit the needs of the classs.

Links under the topic descriptions lead to the associated slidepacks or lecture notes (as Acrobat PDF files).

2001-01-16	Introduction to speech and audio, course overview (application examples).
2001-01-23	Signal processing fundamentals: The Fourier domain, discrete-time systems, the z-transform, filters and filterbanks, sampling and representation.
2001-01-30	Acoustics fundamentals: Sound, waves, waveguides, resonance, energy transfer.
2001-02-06	Lecture canceled
2001-02-13	Pattern recognition fundamentals: noise and uncertainty, distributions, classification, discriminative modeling.
2001-02-20	Auditory perception fundamentals: the ear, auditory physiology, psychophysics, auditory scene analysis
2001-02-27	Speech models and speech synthesis: LPC, cepstrum, harmonic+noise
2001-03-06	Nonspeech: Music analysis and synthesis, sinewave modeling
2001-03-07	MIDTERM EXAM (takehome)
2001-03-13	Spring break - no lecture
2001-03-20	Compression: Speech coding & high-quality audio compression
2001-03-27	Speech Recognition: Front-ends
2001-04-03	Speech Recognition: Sequence recognition (HMMs)
2001-04-10	Speech Recognition: Training & systems
2001-04-17	Speech & audio applications: Audio content-based retrieval, handling sound mixtures
2001-04-24	Project presentations
2000-05-08	FINAL EXAM (during our regular Tuesday time slot)