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ECE537-2011SpeechProcessing
- ECE-537: Fundamentals of Speech Processing ECE; UIUC Official Calendar 2011-12; Description;
- Website Fall ece537; 2010;2009; 2008; OLD 2007 (good for old documents);
- Professor: Jont B. Allen
- Time: 12-12:50 MWF; Location: 241 EL
- Textbook Course description; About the final; Exam I
- This week's schedule
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ECE 537 Schedule (Fall 2011)
| L/W | D | Date | Lecture and Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1 | M | 8/22 | Introductions. Lecture: Overview: Speech production, Acoustics, Psychophysics, neural and information processing. Entropy: Its meaning, definition and the intuition behind it; Read: Flanagan, Chapt. 1: (pdf); Orig. Book: (djvu) |
| 2 | W | 8/24 | Lecture: Mechanisms of Speech production: Sounds of speech: Vowels and consonants; Read: Chapter 2,3 (pdf djvu); HW1: Basic Acoustics (due Wed 8/31/11) (HW01.pdf,HW01-sol.pdf) |
| 3 | F | 8/26 | Lecture: Intensity, speech power; sound level; dB, dB-SPL, Pressure, volume velocity, impedance. Vowels, Formants; Helmholtz resonator HW2: TL and reflectance (due Fri 9/9/11) (pdf, sol-pdf) |
| 4 | M | 8/29 | Lecture: Basic acoustics and the ABCD-Transmission (Chain) matrix; Acoustic Transmission lines; pdf Read: Flanagan, Ch. 2.2, 3.1-3.2 |
| 5/2 | W | 8/31 | Lecture: Solution of 1-D transmission line equation: Lip radiation impedance, The Helmholtz resonator Read Lecture on Horns (pdf) |
| 6 | F | 9/2 | Lecture:d'Alembert solutions for 1-D and 3-D transmission lines; Sound propagation in tubes in speech production; Introduction to reflectance; Read:: Wave model of the Cat eardrum, Parent and Allen 2007 (djvu, pdf), 2010 Human ear canal djvu, ; Review: Matlab filter design, bilinear Z, FIR, IIR |
| -/3 | M | 9/5 | Labor Day Holiday -- No class |
| 7/3 | W | 9/7 | Lecture: Transmission Lines with complex loads and the Propagated Reflectance; Text: Flanagan, Ch. VI (Sect. 6.262, pp 272-276); Readings: Bilbao PhD Thesis p. 1-15 (djvu, pdf) |
| 8 | F | 9/9 | Lecture:Impedance and reflectance at a tube junction (Karal correction djvu), and half-sphere (the mouth) Text:: Ch. 3, Sec. 3.3, pages 136-152 |
| 9/4 | M | 9/12 | Lecture: 2-port networks; Read:: Bilabo Thesis (see page 14) (djvu,pdf); Text Chap. 3, sect. 3.8.1 pages 31-34 radiation impedance load; HW3: TLs with complex terminations (due in two weeks on Mon 9/26); Simulation of the middle ear: pdf;sol-pdf Review: Rosowski, Carney and Peak (1988) on the cat middle ear djvu; Background material: Guinan and Peak djvu; Lynch et al. 1982 djvu |
| 10 | W | 9/14 | Lecture: cont. 2-port and the 3-port nasal tract; Network Postulates djvu; Conversion tables for 2-ports (djvu,pdf) Optional Read: Thevenin (djvu), Norton (djvu) Read: Peterson and Barney (1952) djvu and Peterson (1952) djvu |
| 11 | F | 9/16 | Lecture: Horn Radiation Impedance; Karal Correction; Bernoulli's equation Wiki Text: Flanagan pp 41-53; Read: vanDen Berg (1957) djvu |
| 12/5 | M | 9/19 | Lecture: 'Signal processing review:' Fourier Series, Fourier Transform, Laplace Transform, ZT, DTFT, DFT, FFT; |
| 13 | W | 9/21 | Lecture: 'STFT window methods;' Inverse STFT; STFT for speech processing with analysis/synthesis; filtering; Allen & Rabiner (1977) pdf,djvu) Reading spectrograms |
| 14 | F | 9/23 | Lecture: History of acoustics: BC: Pythagoras; Aristotle; 17C: Mersenne, Marin; Galilei, Galileo; Hooke, Robert; Boyle, Robert; Newton, Sir Issac; 18C: Bernoulli, Daniel; Euler; Lagrange; d'Alembert; 19C: Gauss; Laplace; Fourier; Helmholtz; Heaviside; Strutt, William; Rayleigh, Lord; Bell, AG 20C: Campbell, George; Hilbert, David; Noether, Emmy; Fletcher, Harvey; Nyquist, Harry; Bode, Henrik; Dudley, Homer; Shannon, Claude; Flanagan, James; |
| 15/6 | M | 9/26 | Lecture: Review HW1, HW2; HW3 due; The glottal oscillator & Bernoulli's (Eq.,Derivation) HW4: Vocal-Tract Simulation: Due Fri 10/7 (pdf,files); Read:: Flanagan Sec. 3.74 pages 69-72 |
| 16 | W | 9/28 | Lecture: Linear prediction of speech; Read: Flanagan Sec. 8.112, pp 372-376; Sec. 8.13, pp 390-395; Atal and Hanauer (1971) pdf,djvu; |
| 17 | F | 9/30 | Lecture: Cepstral analysis; Read:: Flanagan Chap. 8, pp 361-363; Begin writing your Final exam: Part I; |
| 18/7 | M | 10/3 | Lecture: CELP coding Review of HW3; Pre-Review HW4 |
| 19 | W | 10/5 | Lecture: Room acoustics; point source; 1, 2 and 6 wall Image method; Wall reflection coef. for finite impedance walls Di and Gilbert (1993) djvu |
| -/8 | F | 10/7 | HW4 due |
| - | F | 10/7 | Exam I: Modeling the VT, STFT, Signal processing of speech; Date: Oct 7, 2011; Time: 11AM-1:45PM; Place: EVRT-170 (EL) |
| 20/8 | M | 10/10 | No class due to Exam I |
| 21 | W | 10/12 | Lecture: Psychoacoustics I: Internal noise model of the JND Riesz pure-tone intensity JND (1928) Masking: Weber's and Fechner's Law; Intensity JND and the near-miss; 'Psychoacoustics II:' Introduction to loudness, Steven's Law; Loudness Lecture notes (Allen): pdf Read:: Flanagan Chapter 4 (pdf, original pdf, djvu), Allen Review (pages 20-30) djvu, Fletcher and Munson (1933) (pp 82-94) djvu HW5 (ver 1.04): LPC (Due 1 week 10/24), Speech samples |
| 22 | F | 10/14 | Lecture: Cochlear Physiology I: Middle ear and inner ear (Cochlear) anatomy, basilar membrane, 1D Models, Hair cells, Nonlinear basilar membrane; Frequency JND, semitone, Internal noise and Masking; relation between the intensity and frequency JND (Cochlear frequency response and the slope of the tuning curve); Read:: Review of Cochlear Modeling: Part II (pp 19-28):djvu; page 151(166)-155(170) of Fletcher's 1929 Book djvu MIT/HST-725: The auditory system pdf |
| 23/9 | M | 10/17 | Lecture: Cochlear Physiology II: traveling waves, neural tuning curves, critical bands, hair cells, neural masking, Upward spread of masking; Forward masking; Auditory Pathway I: Neural Tuning Read:: Review of Cochlear Modeling (pp 1-19) (djvu) |
| 24 | W | 10/19 | Lecture: Cochlear Physiology III: Micromechanics, OHC, IHC Lecture Notes (djvu): Modeling the Cochlea and Organ of Corti, and Read:: Wegel and Lane (1924), Part II (djvu) |
| 25 | F | 10/21 | Lecture: Psychoacoustics III: Relations between Psychophysics and the cochlea; Greenwood's place-map function Read:: Review of Cochlear Modeling (pp 1-19) (djvu), Part I; Fletcher and Munson (1933) (pp 82-94) (djvu) |
| 26/10 | M | 10/24 | Lecture: Cochlear Critical bands Read::'Harvey Fletcher's role ...' (all but the section on the Articulation Index (AI)) djvu) HW6: Radial waves/STFT/OLA/Speech coding (Due Mon 11/14)(HW6,speech files) |
| 27 | W | 10/26 | Lecture: Cochlear Physiology IV: The nonlinear Cochlea; The upward spread of masking (USM) and 2-tone suppression (2TS) Supplement: The Auditory Nerve (djvu) Read:: Features in speech Allen and Li, (2010)(pdf) |
| 28 | F | 10/28 | Lecture: Prof. Wickesberg, Auditory Pathway (AN+CN), Part I: Fall 2008 ppt (Fall 2006 Part I: djvu) |
| 29/11 | M | 10/31 | Lecture: Prof. Wickesberg, Auditory Pathway (AN+CN): Part II: djvu |
| 30 | W | 11/2 | Lecture: Prof. Pandya: The central auditory system (A1 with BN stimulation) (pdf) |
| 31 | F | 11/4 | Lecture: Information theory I: Information, Entropy, Relative Entropy; Channel Capacity Read:: pp 1-10 Shannon (1948) (djvu, pdf I+pdf II) |
| 32/12 | M | 11/7 | Lecture: Information theory II: Morse code example Shannon Channel Read:: Shannon (1950) (djvu, pdf) |
| 33 | W | 11/9 | Lecture: Information theory III:; Entropy, Relative Entropy, Markov models, State diagram; |
| 34 | F | 11/11 | Lecture: EM algorithm: Example: Speech and noise separation Compressed sensing Demo Read:: French and Steinberg (1947) (djvu); Good-Turing djvu Discussion of the EM alg. with examples |
| 35/13 | M | 11/14 | Lecture: Articulation Index/Speech Transmission Index/Speech Intelligibility Index; Support material: RV Shannon et al (1995) djvu, Smith et al (2002) djvu HW7: Information processing (Due Thur 12/8); (pdf, files) |
| 36 | W | 11/16 | Lecture: STI/SII; Review for Exam II; Read:: Steeneken & Houtgast (1980) Speech Transmission Index (djvu) and Houtgast (1989) Modulation detection (djvu) |
| - | R | 11/17 | Exam II: (NO CLASS Friday 11/18) Psychoacoustics, Physiology, Speech, LPC, Tubes, Historical items;Place: EL-143; Time: 7-9 PM DUE: Preliminary version of your Final Exam for review |
| - | - | - | Thanksgiving Holiday (11/21-11/25) |
| 37/14 | M | 11/28 | Lecture: Human speech recognition (HSR), Articulation Index (AI), average score: Pc(AI)=1-echanceeminAI, The confusion matrix (CM), maximum entropy syllable error models, etc.; Allen notes (djvu) Read:: Continue with French and Steinberg (1947)djvu; Miller Nicely (1955) djvu; Miller Nicely confusions as a function of the articulation index; entropy, grouping and chance djvu Assignment: Work on Final exam |
| 38 | W | 11/30 | Lecture: Effects of language and semantic context Miller (1962), Boothroyd (1988), Allen Notes: Events and the AI(djvu) Read: Miller, Heisen and Lichten (1951) (djvu) |
| 39 | F | 12/2 | Lecture: Language context models, Boothroyd; Bronkhorst93 |
| 40/15 | M | 12/5 | Lecture: Language context models, cont., Bronkhorst93 Read: W. Li Random texts exhibit Zipf's-Law djvu |
| 0 | R | 12/8 | Reading Day; HW7 due |
| -/15 | M | 12/9-13 | Final Due Dec 9-13 TBD |
| - | - | - | Not proofed beyond here |
Final
The final is a 15-25 page paper, written in the style and format (but single column) of a journal paper, that discusses everything that you have learned in this course. Writing style, spelling, figures, labels of figures, are all part of the grade.
Allen's Grading of the final
The final is graded based on a list of all the topics that are covered. If there is a paragraph that discusses each topic on my list, then you get at least 1 point, and if the discussion covers the topic effectively, you can get up to 5 points. There are at least 20 topics on the list. When you get to 100 points, you get an A+ on the exam. I expect that you draw on the homework as a starting point. Don't just dump the homework into the exam without modification, that wont get you points. Don't just dump a large number of unexplained figures (that you got from someone else for example) and expect to get points. I need words around each figure. I am looking for insightful comments that link the material together.
Your comments on the relevance of each of the topics I covered in this course, homework problems, exams, etc., are welcome. No points will be taken off, nor given, for strong opinions on my teaching style, or lack thereof, organization, or lack thereof, etc. Please put all such comments in a discussion section at the end of the paper, isolated from the rest of the material.
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