Topics Covered

Speech production and phonetics: speech organs, articulatory phonentics, acoustic theory of speech production, vocal tract models, speech analysis: time and frequency domain analysis, formant and pitch estimation, speech coding: linear predictive coding (LPC), vocoders, vector quantization, speech enhancement techniques, speech synthesis: formant and LPC synthesizers, effect of different speeches and languages, automatic  speech and speaker recognition: feature extraction, hidden Markov models, noise robustness, measures of similarity, language and accent identification.