This lecture first gives an overview on basic mechanisms of human speech production and perception and then presents in detail an introduction in statistical oriented methods for automatic speech recognition. Main topics in this lecture are feature extraction, vector quantization, acoustical modeling with the help of Hidden Markov Models, linguistic modeling of language with stochastic grammars, prosodic information and search algorithms for the acceleration of the decoding step in a speech recogniton system.

Dates & Rooms:
Tuesday, 16:00 - 18:00; Room: 09.150

Nöth, Elmar
Stemmer, Georg