2F1112 Speech Technology extended course 5 credits Aim The participants shall after completion of the course : understand the human speech communication process from both a linguistic and a technical perspective. understand and be able to employ technical models of the perception of speech. be knowledgeable about current speech research and the applications of the research results in information technology and aids for the handicapped. Course contents. The course in Speech Technology discusses processes and systems for information transmission using speech as its medium and also gives basic knowledge of speech, language and hearing. The course contains sections discussing: Information theory applied to speech communication. Linguistic theory and phonetics. Physiology of speech. Acoustics: theory of circuits and signal theory as used in a description of the speech production process. Measuring techniques and signal processing in speech analysis. physiology of hearing. Psychoacoustics: relations between the sound stimuli and the hearing impression. Perception av speech sounds. Models for speech production and speech perception. Theory of automatic machine identification of spoken messages. Theory of synthetic speech. Applications of text-to-speech and speech-to-text in systems for man-machine interaction, especially dialogue systems. Automatic speaker verification. Evaluation of speech technology systems. Applications in medicine and pedagogics. Technical aids for speech-, sight- and hearing impaired.