Learning outcomes

To learn the characteristics of human speech and communication, the processing of speech by computers, and the successful use of speech in human-computer interaction to construct working speech applications.

Contents

Human factors in speech technology. The nature of sound and language. Speech recognition and synthesis. Speech and non-speech audio. Dialogue management. Prompt design. Error management. Data collection and evaluation methods. Interfaces for speech technology components, description languages and formalisms, speech application architectures, tools and development tools. Implementation and evaluation of speech applications.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	0 h	40 h

On-line material and assignments. No obligatory meetings, suitable for distant learning.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

Advanced level (third or fourth year). The course is not offered every year.

Study materials

McTear, M., Spoken Dialogue Technology: Towards the Conversational User Interface. Springer 2004.

Further information

The course includes previous courses "Speech User Interface Project Work" and "Speech Interface Design". You cannot get credits if you have completed these courses. See course homepage for more details.

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