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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) -2010/11-

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Lecturers

News

• QandA for the assignment will be available in AT-4.12. See the Assignment section below for details.
• The first lecture: Monday, 10th January 2011, 15:00-15:50
  
• In addition to "Speech Processing" as the pre-requisite course, it would be advantageous that you take either "Introductory Applied Machine Learning" (IAML), or "Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning" (PMR) in advance. "Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition" (MLPR) and "Machine Translation" (MT) are related second semester courses, along with the PPLS course on "Speech Synthesis".
• You can have a look at the last year's couse web page

Schedule

• The lectures will be held on Mondays and Thursdays at 15:00-15:50 (in Semester 2) at 1GS G.8 (lectures) or AT 4.12 (lab).

Schedule

• NB: the following schedule is provisional and subject to change.

Week	Monday (----)		Thursday (---)
1	10.Jan	Signal analysis (HS)	13.Jan	Signal analysis (HS)
2	17.Jan	Statistical PR (HS)	20.Jan	LAB[AT4.12] (HS)
3	24.Jan	Statistical PR (HS)	27.Jan	HMMs 1 (SR)
4	31.Jan	HMMs 2 (SR)	03.Feb	Modelling speech with HMMs 1 (SR)
5	07.Feb	Modelling speech with HMMs 2 (SR)	10.Feb	Lexicon and language model (SR)
6	14.Feb	LAB[AT4.12] (HS)	17.Feb	LAB[AT4.12] (HS)
7	21.Feb	Search and decoding (SR)	24.Feb	LAB[AT4.12] (HS)
8	28.Feb	Speaker adaptation 1 (SR)	03.Mar	LAB[AT4.12] (HS)
9	07.Mar	Speaker adaptation 2 (SR)	10.Mar	Discrimination and feature combination (SR)
10	14.Mar	Environmental robustness (SR)	17.Mar	Case study: The AMI-ASR system (SR)
11	21.Mar	(no lecture)	24.Mar	(no lecture)

Assignment

• See the handouts for lab-session(4) and lab-session(5)
• The submission deadline is Thursday, 24th March 2011 at 16:00.
• Submission instructions
• Report templates (LaTeX) (MS Word)
• Coursework marking guidelines
• Coursework QandA
• QandA for the assignment will be available in AT-4.12 as follows

  Date	Time
  Thursday 10 March	16:00-17:00
  Monday 14 March	17:00-18:00
  Thursday 17 March	16:00-17:00
  Monday 21 March	17:00-18:00
  Wednesday 23 March	16:00-17:00

Handouts

• Lecture 1 and 2 (10, 13 Jan): signal analysis handout (1) [R1.2: 13/01/11]
• Lecture 3 and 4 (17, 24 Jan): Statistical pattern recognition handout (2)
• Lecture 5 and 6 (27, 31 Jan): HMMs slides
• Lecture 7 and 8 (3, 7 Feb): Modelling speech with HMMs slides
• Lecture 9 (10 Feb): Words: Pronunciations and Language Models slides
• Lecture 10 (21 Feb): Search and Decoding slides
• Lecture 11 and 12 (28 Feb, 7 Mar): Speaker Adaptation slides
• Lecture 13 (10 Mar): Discrimination and feature combination slides
• Lecture 14 (14 Mar): Environmental robustness slides
• Lecture 15 (17 Mar): The AMI-ASR meeting recognition system slides

• lab-session (1)
• lab-session (2)
• lab-session (3)
• lab-session (4) [R1.2: 02/03/11]
• lab-session (5)

References

• Useful texts