Undergraduate Course: Speech Synthesis (LASC10062)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Language Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/teaching/postgrad/modules/ss/ |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course explores text-to-speech synthesis by taking a detailed look at the theory and practice of current speech synthesis systems. Through lectures students will learn about the theory of speech synthesis, and through the lab sessions and coursework they will learn about the practical application of this theory as they design and build their own synthetic voice for a unit selection speech synthesiser. The syllabus includes: the two main approaches to speech synthesis, text selection and recording data for corpus based approaches, searching inventories for unit selection approaches, prosody, pitch tracking, The Festival speech synthesis system, speech coding for speech synthesis, statistical parametric speech synthesis, evaluation, and current research issues in speech synthesis. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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| Central | Laboratory | | 1-11 | | | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | | | Central | Laboratory | | 1-11 | | 15:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
Class information:
Tues: Rm 1.17 Dugald Stewart Building
Friday: Lab (rm 3.02) Appleton Tower
Teaching Contact Time: 9 weeks out of 11 at 3 hours/week = 27 hours |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
A student who has attended this course should
Understand the speech synthesis process, and be familiar with the processing steps required to convert text to speech.
Be familiar with the two main speech synthesis methods currently in use, understanding the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Have a detailed understanding of the principles of unit selection speech synthesis, and the issues involved in choosing suitable candidate units to match a given target sequence.
Understand the design issues associated with recording data suitable for building a unit selection voice.
Have practical experience of building a synthetic voice.
Be familiar with the different speech coding techniques that can be used for speech synthesis, and understand how these can be used to aid the joining of individual speech segments and how using different signal processing techniques to manipulate speech synthesis output affects the speech quality.
Be in a position to discuss current issues in speech synthesis and be able to read current research papers. |
Assessment Information
Exam (50%). One written assignment based on laboratory work (50%)
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Study Pattern |
Teaching Contact Time: 9 weeks out of 11 at 3 hours/week = 27 hours |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Simon King
Tel: (0131 6)51 1725
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Course secretary | Ms Stephanie Fong
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