Digital Speech Processing

(Instructor: Prof.

A.

Alwan) (Same as Biomedical Engineering M214A.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, seven hours.

Requisite: course 113.

Theory and applications of digital processing of speech signals.

Mathematical models of human speech production and perception mechanisms, speech analysis/synthesis.

Techniques include linear prediction, filter-bank models, and homomorphic filtering.

Applications to speech synthesis, automatic recognition, and hearing aids.