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Calendar

The course met twice a week, with lectures lasting about one hour. There were also two lab sessions scheduled each week. The calendar below provides information on the course's lecture (L) and term project (P) sessions. The lab sessions covered similar topics, and lab reports were to be handed in on the next class day after the lab.


SES #TOPICSLABSKEY DATES
A. Introduction
L1

Organization; The Speech Chain

Recording Speech in a Sound-Treated Room; Acoustic Theory; SPL; dB

Digitizing, Waveform Editing and Spectral Analysis by Computer; Sampling Theorem, Waveform Windowing

Lab 1: Recording Speech in a Sound-Treated Room, Spectral Analysis and Waveform Editing by Computer 
B. Acoustic Analysis of Vowels and Consonants
L2Broadband Spectral Analysis of English Vowels; Vocal Tract Transfer Functions for Vowels; Nasalization of VowelsLab 2: Spectrographic and Spectrum Analysis of the English Vowel SystemLab 1 report due
L3Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant English Consonants: Nasals, Liquids, Glides; Sound Sources and Transfer Functions for ConsonantsLab 3: Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant ConsonantsLab 2 report due
L4Sound Generation from Turbulence in the Vocal Tract; Spectral Analysis of Fricative and Stop Consonants; Frication Noise and Aspiration NoiseLab 4: Spectral Analysis of Stop and Fricative ConsonantsLab 3 report due
L5Sound Generation at the Larynx; Inverse Filtering and Spectrum of Glottal Source; Effect of Glottal Source on Spectra of VowelsLab 5: Sound Generation at the Larynx: Characteristics of the Glottal SourceLab 4 report due
C. Speech Movements, Airflow
L6Anatomy/Physiology of Speech Production ApparatusLab 5 report due
L7Interpretation of Cineradiographic Motion Pictures

Studies of Speech Movements for Vowels and Consonants
Lab 6: Interpretation of Cineradiographic Motion Pictures
L8Further Discussion of Speech Movements

Measuring Speech Movements using Data from X-ray Microbeam Systems
Lab 7: Measuring Speech Movements using Data from X-ray Microbeam SystemsLab 6 report due
D. Quantal Theory and Features
L9Quantal Nature of Articulatory-to Acoustic Relations; Quantal Theory for Consonant Place of Articulation and for VowelsLab 8: Formant Frequency Calculations from Area Function DataLab 7 report due
E. Sentence-level Phenomena
L10Respiration for Speech; Initiation and Termination of Utterances; Techniques for Measuring Respiration during SpeechLab 9: Techniques for Measuring Respiration during SpeechLab 8 report due
L11Some Reduction and Assimilation Phenomena in Fluent Speech; Effects of StressLab 10: Sound Segment ReductionLab 9 report due
L12Prosody 1: Vowel and Consonant Durations in Speech; Duration Rules for EnglishLab 11: Prosody 1: Vowel and Consonant Durations in SpeechLab 10 report due
L13Prosody 2: Measurement and Interpretation of Fundamental Frequency Contours, Respiratory ConstraintsLab 12: Prosody 2: Measurement and Interpretation of Fundamental Frequency ContoursLab 11 report due
F. Speech Perception
L14Evaluation of Segmental Intelligibility; Intelligibility, Comprehension, Naturalness, Cognitive Load for Words in SentencesLab 13: Speech Intelligibility and Confusion MatricesLab 12 report due
G. Speech Disorders and Speech Development
L15Speech Disorders

Acoustic Analysis and Interpretation of Individuals with Neuromuscular Disorders and of the Speech of Children with Articulation Disorders

Acoustic Analysis of Normal Speech Development in Children
Lab 14: Introduction to Speech Disorders: Analysis of the Speech in ChildrenLab 13 report due
H. Speech Synthesis and Recognition
L16Speech Synthesis using a Formant Synthesizer; Review Acoustic Theory of Speech Production, Formant Synthesis; Synthesizing SyllablesLab 15: Speech Synthesis using a Formant SynthesizerLab 14 report due
L17No LectureContinuation of Speech Synthesis Lab
L18Higher-Level Synthesis with a Formant Synthesizer, using Quasi-articulatory Parameters

Synthesis of Text by Rule
Lab 16: Higher-Level Synthesis Using Quasi-articulatory ParametersLab 15 report due
L19Topic Selection for Individual Term Project Research; Each Student describes Proposed ResearchLab 16 report due
L20Use of Landmarks and Features for Speech Recognition; Labeling of Sentences; Rules for Feature Modification

Role of Lexicon in Refining Interpretation of Acoustic Evidence
Lab 17: Use of Landmarks and Features for Speech Recognition
L21Further Discussion of Feature-Based ModelsLab 17 report due
I. Term Projects
P1-P2Individual Term Project Research
P3-P5Student Oral Reports on Term Project Results

 








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