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LING H208 SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION (1.0 Credit)
Jane Chandlee
Division: Natural Science; Symbolic Reasoning
Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes
An introduction to the methodologies used in the automated recognition and synthesis of human speech, focusing on Hidden Markov Models in recognition and unit selection in synthesis. Students will get hands-on experience with implementing the various components of these systems to better understand the techniques, challenges, and open areas of research. Crosslisted: Computer Science, Linguistics Prerequisite(s): LING 204, CS105 and 106 OR CS107 OR BMC 110 and 206 OR instructor consent