Course requirements Topics and dates Labs Resources Books Papers Peter Assmann School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX 75083 Tel: (972) 883-2435 Fax: (972) 883-2491 assmann@utdallas.edu

HCS / ACN 7367 - Fall semester 2009 Speech Perception Laboratory Course Description. This course provides an introduction to the field of speech processing by computer, with primary application to research techniques in the study of speech perception. Weekly laboratory sessions are included to provide hands-on experience with computer techniques for speech analysis and speech synthesis, as well as laboratory replications of classical experimental studies of speech perception. Topics to be covered include the acoustic analysis and synthesis of speech; computer simulation of the auditory processing of speech; categorical perception and cue trading; perceptual compensation for speaker differences and variations in speaking rate; effects of background noise, including other voices (the "cocktail party problem"); computational models of speech perception.  Required: MATLAB & Simulink Student Version 2009a. The MathWorks. ISBN: 978-0-9792239-9-0. Recommended books: (1) Kent, R.D. & Read, C. (2001). The Acoustic Analysis of Speech. Singular Press. (2) W.M. Hartmann (1996). Signals, sound and sensation. Springer-Verlag. (3) Ian McLoughlin (2009). Applied Speech and Audio Processing: With Matlab Examples. Cambridge University Press.