III B.E. (Information Technology)

VII SEMESTER

7 IT 6.2 DIGITAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING

  1. Introduction: Knowledge in speech and language processing, ambiguity, Models and algorithms, language, though and understanding.

  2. Regular Expression and Automata: Regular expressions – Basic regular expression patterns, Disjunction, Grouping and Precedence, Finite-State Automata-Using and FSA to recognize shoptalk, Using NFSA to accept strings.

  3. Morphology and Finite State Transducers: Survey of English Morphology – Inflectional and derivational Morphology, Finite-state morphology parsing-Lexicen and Morphnotacties, Morphological parsing with Finite-State Transducers, Orthographic Rules and Finite-State Transducers. Combining FST lexicons and rules. Lexicon – free FSTs and Human Morphological Processing.

  4. Computational Phonology and Text –To – Speech: Speech sounds and phonetic Transcription- Consonants; place and Manner of articulation and vowels. Phonemic, Phonology Rules and Transducers. Advanced Issues in computational phonology- Harmony, Templates Morphology and Optimality theory. Machine Learning of phonological Rules, Mapping Text to Phones for TTS, Prosody in TTS and Human, Processing of Phonology and Morphology.

  5. HMMs and Speech Recognition: Speed Recognition Architecture, Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm and A* Decoding, Acoustic processing of Speed-Sound Waves, Waveform interpretation and spectra. Training a Speech Recognizer and Human Speech Recognition.

Recommended Books:

1        Daniel Jurafsky – Speech and Language Processing, Pearson Education, Asia.