Speech Technologies
Lectures: 45
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 30
ECTS credit: 5
Introduction: description of the field, short outline of the historical development of
speech technologies. Importance and developments of speech technologies applications for Slovenian language.
Basic characteristics production and auditory perception in human speech communication. Representation of speech patterns.
Speech processing: acquisition and preprocessing, speech features, speech
signal segmentation, speech databases.
Speech recognition systems: speaker recognition and verification, isolated word and continuous speech recognition, spontaneous speech recognition. Statistical acoustic and language modeling, semantic speech analysis.
Artificial speech: systems for speech synthesis in general, grapheme-to-phoneme
conversion, prosody modeling, speechsynthesis procedures. Assessment of speech synthesis systems.
Dialogue: automated dialogue systems in general, system configurations, dialogue
management, knowledge representations, multimodality, assessment of dialogue systems.
1. R. Pieraccini: The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech, MIT Press , 2012. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=44356…
2. Rabiner L., Schafer R., Theory and Applications of Digital Speech Processing, Prentince Hall, 1. Ed., 2010