Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To become familiar with speech recognition methods and applications. Additionally, to learn to understand the structure of a typical speech recognition system and to know how to construct one in practice.

Credits: 5

Schedule: 03.11.2021 - 17.12.2021

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Mikko Kurimo

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Preprocessing and feature extraction for speech, phoneme models,
    decoding, lexicon and language models, recognition and applications of
    continuous speech.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Exercises and project work.

Workload
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Lectures: 24h
    Home exercises, group projects, and other individual work: 109 h

    Attendance in some contact teaching may be compulsory.

DETAILS

Study Material
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Huang, Acero: Spoken Language Processing. Prentice Hall, 2001 ISBN: 0-13-022616-5

    Yu, Deng: Automatic Speech Recognition A Deep Learning Approach. Springer, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-4471-5779-3

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Period:

    2020-2021 Autumn II-II

    2021-2022 Autumn II-II

    Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELEC-E5510

    Registration for Courses: In the academic year 2021-2022, registration for courses will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi) instead of WebOodi.

    In WebOodi