IFA course materials

Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Course documents, literature, and assignments. Slides (occasionally with sound samples) in PDF format for our course on Speech Technology. Slides are prepared with LaTeX Beamer. Source code is available. Slides are licensed under the GNU GPL.

Spraakherkenning en Synthese


Information in Spoken Language, LOT winterschool 2006, Amsterdam

Slides (occasionally with sound samples) in PDF format for this course. Slides are prepared with LaTeX Beamer. Source code is available. Slides are licensed under the GNU GPL.

PDF presentations based on the LaTeX sources

  1. Introduction to Information Theory
  2. Symbolic Information in language
  3. Acoustic information in speech (with sound)
  4. Information Structure
  5. Efficiency in speech
  6. Bibliography
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