6.345/HST.728 Automatic Speech Recognition
Spring 2013
Major Components in an Automatic Speech Recognition System
Instructors: James R Glass, Victor Zue
TAs: Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Stephen H Shum
Lecture: MW2.30-4 (32-144)
Information:
Prerequisites: 6.003, 6.041, or by instructor permission.
This course introduces students to the rapidly developing fields of automatic speech recognition and spoken language processing. Topics covered include acoustic theory of speech production and perception, acoustic-phonetics, signal representation, acoustic and language modeling, search, hidden Markov modeling, robustness, adaptation, discriminative and alternative approaches. Lectures will be interspersed with theory and applications. Assignments include problems, laboratory exercises, and more open-ended challenges.
Announcements
Last Words
Hi Everyone,Congratulations on submitting your final reports! We're in the process of going through them now and, so far, they look great. On behalf of the entire teaching staff, thank you all so much for an awesome semester. We had a blast and learned a lot, and we hope that you did too!
Now -- and I bet you all saw this coming -- if you haven't
filled out an evaluation for this course yet, note that you only
have until 9am on Monday morning to make it publicly known how
annoying my emails can be. =) So please make sure to do so at the
link below!
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/
Cheers,
Stephen, Ekapol, Jim, and Victor
Announced on 18 May 2013 3:33 p.m. by Stephen H Shum
Reminder! Final Project Write-ups Due...
Hi Everyone,Great job on the presentations yesterday! We were amazed at how much material you were all able to cover in less than four minutes; it made us even more excited to see what you come up with for the final papers.
On that note, this announcement will serve as a FINAL reminder that we will continue accepting submissions of your final write-ups until 11:59pm on Friday, May 17. After tomorrow night, there is very, VERY little chance that we can be convinced to read your final paper. (Please realize that the act of reading and grading the papers from each project group -- 19 total -- may in fact double the number of papers I have read in the last four years.)
Please submit your write-ups electronically, preferably via an email to 6345-staff@lists.csail.mit.edu, though Stellar uploads are acceptable if you are so strongly compelled.
And lastly, course evaluations! Please please please take
a few minutes to fill them out. We would love to hear from you at
the link below:
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/
Almost done - good luck!
-Stephen
Announced on 16 May 2013 3:13 p.m. by Stephen H Shum
Slides for today's presentations
I'm going to need some time to make sure everything works properly on my laptop, so send them over ASAP. And to those who have already done so, thank you!
Cheers,
Stephen
Announced on 15 May 2013 11:15 a.m. by Stephen H Shum
Final Presentations!
Hi Everyone,If you were in class today, you should have received your graded quiz. The mean was a 59.3 with a standard deviation of 7.74.
To that end, we have entered all your scores to date onto the Gradebook on Stellar. Please double check that our numbers match yours; let us know by the end of this week if anything seems amiss.
As Jim said at the beginning of lecture, we are going to be running a very tight schedule for Wednesday's presentations. We have 19 different projects this year, so it will be a lot to cover in less than 90 minutes of class. We will be enforcing time limits quite stringently, so plan on a FOUR-minute presentation (i.e., elevator pitch). And please be ON TIME! We will start promptly at 2:30.
Also, please send your slides to the TA's by 12pm NOON on Wednesday, but the earlier the better. The earlier you send them to us, the less likely we will be to make you go first! The batting order will be mostly random, but if you have a rather strong preference as to when you would like to present, let us know when you send us your slides and we'll see what we can do.
And lastly, fill out course evaluations! The deadline is next
Monday, and we would be forever grateful for your feedback.
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/
Best of luck with the final project!
Announced on 13 May 2013 4:35 p.m. by Stephen H Shum
Project Presentation Details
Hi Everyone,Just to reiterate what Jim said about next Wednesday's project presentations at the beginning of lecture today:
a) Because of the number of students in this class, presentations will be 5 minutes per project. Despite the time limitation, we strongly encourage each person in the group (that is, if you are in a group) to say at least something about his/her respective contribution.
b) Given the limited amount of time, your presentation should consist of 3-4 powerpoint slides. A general template might have a first slide to introduce the problem and some background, a second slide that discusses the data and implementation (and who did what!), a third slide that presents results and some brief analysis, and maybe a fourth slide that concludes and looks ahead to future work.
c) To ease the transition between presentations, please email your slides to the TA's by NOON on Wednesday, May 15. Be sure to have someone's name in the file that you send along (e.g., "ekapol_presentation.pdf").
d) Tip: practice, practice, practice! Five minutes goes by really really quickly, so show up prepared and let's enjoy our last day of 6.345!
Cya,
Stephen
Announced on 08 May 2013 3:40 p.m. by Stephen H Shum
