This section contains a complete set of lecture slides for the course, including guest lectures. Lectures 3, 4, and 6 have audio links to speech samples presented during the lectures. 
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  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 1 |  |  |  | 1 2 |  |  |  | Course Overview (PDF) Acoustic Theory of Speech Production (PDF - 1.4 MB) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 2 |  |  |  | 3 4 |  |  |  | Speech Sounds (PDF - 3.6 MB) Speech Sounds (continued) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 3 |  |  |  | 5 6 |  |  |  | Signal Representation (PDF - 1.9 MB) Vector Quantization (PDF - 1.8 MB) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 4 |  |  |  | 7 8 |  |  |  | Pattern Classification (1) (PDF - 1.1 MB) Pattern Classification (2) (PDF) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 5 |  |  |  | 9 10 |  |  |  | Search (PDF) Hidden Markov Modeling (1) (PDF) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 6 |  |  |  | 11 12 |  |  |  | Language Modeling (PDF) Language Modeling (continued) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 7 |  |  |  | 13 |  |  |  | Guest Lecture by Karen Livescu: Graphical Models (PDF) Quiz 1 |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 8 |  |  |  | 14 15 |  |  |  | Guest Lecture by Rita Singh: Hidden Markov Modeling (2) (PDF - 2.1 MB) Guest Lecture by Rita Singh: Hidden Markov Modeling (3) (PDF - 1.4 MB) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 9 |  |  |  | 16 17  |  |  |  | Segment-Based ASR (PDF) Guest Lecture by Lee Hetherington: Finite-State Transducers (PDF) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 10 |  |  |  | 18 19  |  |  |  | Acoustic-Phonetic Modeling (PDF) Robust ASR (1) (PDF) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 11 |  |  |  | 20 21  |  |  |  | Guest Lecture by Timothy Hazen: Robust ASR (2) (PDF) Guest Lecture by Timothy Hazen: Adaptation (PDF) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 12 |  |  |  | 22 23  |  |  |  | Speech Understanding (PDF - 1.1 MB) Guest Lecture by Timothy Hazen: Paralinguistic Information (PDF - 1.0 MB) |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 13 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Quiz 2 No Lecture |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |   | 14 |  |  |  | 
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