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On-line Courses and Educational Material Relevant to Speech Recognition Below is a list of links to courses offered within ISIP related to the area of human language technology, as well as links to some valuable on-line courses that are available on the Internet. Please submit your suggestions for other useful links to help@isip.isipess.com. Speech MLearn Stats DSP Other Ext: Speech Ext: MLearn Ext: Stats Ext: DSP Ext: Other   ISIP On-line Courses:     Speech: ECE 8483 - Fundamentals of Speech Recognition: The goal of this course is to develop a working knowledge of large vocabulary conversational speech recognition, including theory and practice. ISIP 0000 - Fundamentals of Speech Recognition: This is a half-week short course on hidden Markov model approaches to speech recognition. ECE 7000 - Special Topics in Speech Recognition: A series of one-hour seminars on current topics in speech recognition. ASE 6713 - Introduction to Acoustics: A three-hour overview of the role of acoustics in speech processing.     Machine Learning: ECE 8443 - Pattern Recognition: The foundations of speech recognition are based on fundamental machine learning topics such as classification and discrimination.     Statistics: ECE 8990 - Information Theory: This course focuses on the principles of statistical modeling and characterization of data.     Digital Signal Processing: ECE 4773 - Digital Signal Processing: An introductory course on representation of analog signals using discrete mathematics. ECE 4000 - Special Topics in Signal Processing: A collection of senior-year projects performed by students interested in signal processing. ECE 3163 - Signals and Systems: An entry-level course on the fundamentals of linear system theory.     Other: ECE 2991 - Unix Software Tools: This special topics course was taught in 1995. It is fun to look back and observe the state of computing at that time. ISIP 0001 - Unix Software Engineering: A special topics course describing Unix tools to support software engineering that was taught at Mtel (became Skytel... became WorldCom... became bankrupt...).   Related Internet-based Material:     Speech: AESL: the LDC American English spoken lexicon. BeRP: the Berkeley restaurant project. comp.speech: resources at Cambridge University. Debugging Tools: debugging tools for dynamic storage allocation and memory management. Edinburgh Speech Tools Library: speech and linguistic classes and DSP algorithms. EMU: Unix and Windows speech annotation system. Entropic's HAPI: speech recognition engine. The Intarc Communication Environment: message-passing subsystem for large distributed AI systems. The Interference Progression Planner: ADL planning system. The Jupiter Project: MIT's spoken language systems lab. An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling: information about language model smoothing by Stanley F. Chen and Joshua Goodman. Language and Statistics: a course on language and statistics at CMU. Linguistic Annotation: tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations. LPC: linear-predictive coding software. Maximum Entropy: knowledge from incomplete information, without making unsubstantiated assumptions. Modern Language Association of America (MLA): not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the study and teaching of language and literature. recogviz: visualizing the speech recognition process. SAPI v4.0 SDK: speech application programming interface for Microsoft Windows. SNACK: speech visualization module. Speech Technology Network: a virtual community for speech technology professionals. SPIDER: natural language system (this site is in German). STRUT: speech training and recognition unified tool. Technovoice: click "Demo" to try the Eloquens(R), Actor(tm), and Flexus(R) speech generation systems (this site is in Italian).     Machine Learning: The Basic Learning Model: designing a learning system. Bayesian Belief Nets: list of applications. FSM: finite state machine transducers. Graphical Models: a brief introduction to graphical models and Bayesian networks. JavaBayes: Bayesian networks in Java. NICO toolkit: artificial neural network toolkit. Pattern Recognition for HCI: an overview of pattern recognition and classification by R.O. Duda. SVM Applets: pattern recognition and regression estimation.     Statistics: AutoFit: automatic regression equation builder. Basic Statistics: an online textbook from StatSoft, Inc.     Digital Signal Processing: Auditory Toolbox: auditory models developed using Matlab. B-DASUR1: contour recognition system. Blitz++: FFT implementation using template meta-programming. comp.dsp: frequently asked questions regarding comp.dsp. dspGuru: the net's best single source of information and software for digital signal processing. FIR filter design: summation of freely available FIR filter design software. Image Classification: Berkeley digital library project. Matlab: compatible matrix tool box in C++. Matlab Central: The technical computing portal for all your scientific and engineering needs. Ptolemy 0.7.1: adaptive computing systems software. White Mountain DSP, Inc.: DSP starter kits. Introduction to DSP: an online DSP course at Bores Signal Processing. Matlab: the official home page at Mathworks. Matlab starter examples: a suite of example code for beginners. Minimum Description Length Models: a review of coding schemes. Techonline: a great resource for technical information about DSP.     Other: ATSPD: dictionary of algorithms, data structures, and problems. Concurrent Versions Systems: manual for CVS 1.9 by Per Cederqvist et al. CVS resources: FAQ, reference manual, tutorial and links about CVS. CVS information: from the Laboratory of Nuclear Sciences at Cornell University. CVS tutorial: another tutorial, from the LNS at Cornell. GNU make: manual edition 0.51 for make version 3.76 beta. MySQL: public domain relational database system. Shareware.com: software resources with a database of more than 250,000 files. Solaris Numerical Computation Guide: a document explaining IEEE floating point operations and how they are implemented under Solaris. Sun Documentation: manuals, guides, answer books, and manual pages. WAVE File Format: description of the WAVE file format. wget: web spider/capture. Wotsit's Format: the complete programmer's resource on the net for file formats.