This calendar provides lecture topics covered in the course, along with links to lecture notes and assignments. Some of the lecture notes contain links to sample audio files. 
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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)   |  |  | Acoustic Theory (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 3 |  |  |  | 5 6 |  |  |  | Signal Representation (PDF - 1.9 MB) Vector Quantization (PDF - 1.8 MB)  |  |  | Speech Sounds (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 4 |  |  |  | 7 8 |  |  |  | Pattern Classification (1) (PDF - 1.1 MB) Pattern Classification (2) (PDF)  |  |  | Signal Representation (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 5 |  |  |  | 9 10 |  |  |  | Search (PDF) Hidden Markov Modeling (1) (PDF)  |  |  | Acoustic Modeling (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 6 |  |  |  | 11 12 |  |  |  | Language Modeling (PDF) Language Modeling (continued)  |  |  | Introduction to HMMs (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 7 |  |  |  | 13 |  |  |  | Graphical Models (PDF) Quiz 1  |  |  | Language Modeling (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 8 |  |  |  | 14 15 |  |  |  | Hidden Markov Modeling (2) (PDF - 2.1 MB) Hidden Markov Modeling (3) (PDF - 1.4 MB)  |  |  | Graphical Models (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 9 |  |  |  | 16 17  |  |  |  | Segment-Based ASR (PDF) Finite-State Transducers (PDF)  |  |  | HMM (2) (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 10 |  |  |  | 18 19  |  |  |  | Acoustic-Phonetic Modeling (PDF) Robust ASR (1) (PDF)  |  |  | Segment-Based ASR (PDF)  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 11 |  |  |  | 20 21  |  |  |  | Robust ASR (2) (PDF) Adaptation (PDF)  |  |  | Term Project |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 12 |  |  |  | 22 23  |  |  |  | Speech Understanding (PDF - 1.1) Paralinguistic Information (PDF - 1.0 MB)    |  |  | Term Project |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 13 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Quiz 2 No Lecture  |  |  | Term Project  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   | 14 |  |  |  | 
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