Syllabus for Speech Processing (CPE 464C, CPE 644)
Course Objective
This course is designed to provide the background knowledge of speech processing including
the acoustic of speech sound, the review of speech production in human beings, and the
fundamental of speech recognition and synthesis.
Course Description
Basic knowledge from several fields is required to effectively pursue research in automatic
speech processing. We study the acoustic content of the speech signal. Students will use the
spectrographic display to examine the signal and discover its variable properties. Phones in
increasingly larger contents will be studied with the goal of understanding co-articulation.
Phonological rules will be studied as a contextual aid in understanding the spectrographic
display.
Time and Place: Thursday 6.00-9.00 pm CB4 40805
Instructor:
 Dr. Santitham Prom-on, Dept. of Computer Engineering, KMUTT.
Email santitham@cpe.kmutt.ac.th, appointment by email.
Website: http://www.cpe.kmutt.ac.th/~promon
 Dr. Suthathip Maneewongvatana, Dept. of Computer Engineering, KMUTT.
Email fay@cpe.kmutt.ac.th , appointment by email.
Website: http://www.cpe.kmutt.ac.th/~fay, download materials via this page.
Workload: There will be in-class labs and assignments.
Grading: In-class labs 15%, Assignments 15%, Midterm 30%, and Final 40%. Student can
request for regrading within 24 hours after the grades are posted.
Academic Integrity: All work that you submit in this course must be your own. You must
not copy/modify work of other. You must protect your own work from being copied by
other. Academic dishonesty issue will be taken seriously. If the cheating is discovered,
you will receive no credit of that particular task for the first time (at least). Second
occurrence of cheating results in F grade and the incident will be sent to the faculty for
further reviews.
Text: L. Rabiner, B.W. Juang, Fundamental of Speech Recognition, Prentice Hall, 1993
K.N. Stevens, Acoustic Phonetics, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1998
Software: Matlab, PRATT, Audacity
Tentative Schedule:
Date
Topic
Comment
5/11
Introduction to Speech Processing
A. Santitham+
A.Suthathip
12/11
Basic Acoustic of Sound
A. Santitham
19/11
Human Speech
A. Santitham
26/11
Computer Speech
3/12
Source Filter Model of Speech Production
A. Suthathip
10/12
Phonetic 1
A. Suthathip
17/12
Phonetic 2
A. Suthathip
24/12
----------------Midterm Exam-----------------------7/1
ASR: Feature Extraction 1
A. Santitham
14/1
ASR: Feature Extraction 2
A. Santitham
21/1
28/1
4/2
11/2
18/2
25/2
4/3
ASR: Classification 1
ASR: Classification 2
Text Processing
Wave form
Speech Prosody
Voice Conversion, modification
----------------Final Exam------------------------
A. Suthathip
A. Suthathip
A. Suthathip
A. Santitham
A. Santitham
A. Suthathip