05 08/27 2.1.3.4 Perception and Masking 06 08/30 2.2 Phonetics and Phonology 07 09/01 2.3 - 2.5 Syntax and Semantics 08 09/03 5.5, 9.3 Sampling 09 09/08 5.6, 5.7 Resampling 10 09/10 10.1 - 10.4 Acoustic Transducers 11 09/13 5.4 Temporal Analysis 12 09/15 5.1 - 5.3 Frequency Domain Analysis 13 09/17 Lectures 1-11 Exam No. 1 14 09/20 6.4 - 6.5 Cepstral Analysis 15 09/22 6.1 - 6.3 Linear Prediction 16 09/24 6.5.3 LP-Based Representations 17 09/27 6.5.3, 9.3.4 Spectral Normalization 18 09/29 9.3.3 Differentiation 19 10/01 9.3.4, 3.2.2 Principal Components 10/04 02/22 9.3.4, 3.2.2 Linear Discriminant Analysis 21 10/06 8.2.1 Dynamic Programming 22 10/08 8.2.2, 8.2.3 Fundamentals of Markov Models 23 10/11 8.2.4, 4.4.2 Parameter Estimation 24 10/13 8.2.4 HMM Training 25 10/15 4.4.3, 8.3 Continuous Mixture Densities 26 10/20 8.4 Practical Issues 27 10/22 4.5 Decision Trees 28 10/25 Lectures 12 - 28 Exam No. 2 29 10/27 8.5 Limitations of HMMs 30 10/29 11.1 Formal Language Theory 31 11/01 11.2.1 Context Free Grammars 32 11/03 11.2.2, 11.3 N-gram Models and Complexity 33 11/05 11.4 Smoothing 34 11/08 12.1 Basic Search Algorithms 35 11/10 12.2 - 12.4 Time Synchronous Search 36 11/12 12.5 - 13.6 Stack Decoding 37 11/15 13.1.1 - 13.1.3 Lexical Trees 38 11/17 13.1.4 - 13.1.6 Efficent Trees 39 11/19 3.2.3, 9.6 Adaptation 40 11/22 Lectures 29 - 37 Exam No. 3 41 11/29 4.3 Discriminative Training 42 12/01 4.3.3, 9.8.1 Neural Networks 43 12/03 N/A Evaluation Metrics and Common Evaluations 46 12/07 Cumulative Final Exam (12 - 3 PM)
Homework:

No. Due Date Description
1 08/30 Speech Production
2 09/08 Speech Perception
3 09/13 Linguistics
4 09/20 Sampling
5 09/27 Frequency Response
6 10/04 Linear Prediction and the Cepstrum
7 10/11 Principle Components Analysis
8 10/20 Differentiation
9 10/25 Dynamic Programming
10 11/01 HMM Training
11 11/08 EM Estimation
12 11/15 N-grams
13 11/22 Smoothing
14 11/29 Search