COMS 6998: Topics in Spoken Language Processing
Instructors: Julia Hirschberg and Sarah Ita
Levitan
Time: F 10:10-12:00 (Spring 2019)
Location: TBD
Prerequisite: COMS
4705 or another speech or NLP class
Description:
This class will introduce students to spoken language processing: basic concepts, analysis approaches, and
applications.
Required readings:
Juafsky &
Martin 2019 chapters
These and other readings are linked from this
syllabus for each class.
Suggested:
Keith
Johnson. Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics (3rd edition). Wiley. 2011.
Resources:
Praat: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
tutorials: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manualsByOthers.html)
Assignments:
Grade Breakdown
Homeworks: TBD
Project:
TBD
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Syllabus
Note: Schedule and readings are
subject to change
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Date |
Topic |
Readings |
Assignments and Optional Readings |
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Week 1:1/25 |
Introduction to Speech Processing |
TBD throughout |
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Week 2:2/1 |
From Sounds to Language |
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Week 3:2/8 |
Acoustics of Speech |
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Week 4:2/15 |
Tools for Speech Analysis |
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Homework 1: Praat Recording and
Analysis |
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Week 5:2/22 |
Analyzing Speech Prosody |
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Homework 2: ToBI Labeling |
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Week 6:3/1 |
Text-to-Speech Synthesis |
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Week 7:3/8 |
Speech Recognition |
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Week 8:3/15 |
Spoken Dialogue Systems |
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Homework 3: Dialogue Act Identification in Switchboard |
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Week 10:/3/29 |
Entrainment in Spoken Language |
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Week 11:4/5 |
Speech Analysis: Sentiment and Emotion |
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Homework 4: Emotional Speech Detection |
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Week 12:4/12 |
Speech Analysis: Deception and Trust |
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Week 13:4/19 |
Speech Analysis: Sarcasm |
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Week 14:4/26 |
Speech Analysis: Charisma, Likability and Style in Speech
and Text |
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Week 15:5/3 |
Speech Analysis: Personality and Mental State |
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Final Project Reports due |