HCSCGH12 - Speech Processing

Outline (more details can be found on the Life Sciences Faculty Courses Database)

The course aims to familiarize the students with the main concepts in speech processing and to introduce them to specific topics in current research in both speech production and perception. The course covers topics from low-level auditory processing to high-level processing of intonation and speech rhythm. There will be sessions on how prosodic features (e.g. intonation and speech rate) are used in conveying multiple communicative meanings and emotions, to what extent classical and more recent measures of speech rhythm account for differences between languages, how speech production and perception are represented in the brain, how people adapt to variability in speakers' accents, how speech is processed in cochlear implants. The topics will be discussed with respect to current research, including differences in research methodologies and their relationship to models of speech processing. The course is taught by a number of lecturers - all experts in the topics they teach.

Value: 15 credits

Taught by:

• Yi Xu