Unit name | Speech and Audio Processing |
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Unit code | EENGM1411 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Hill |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
EENG31400 Digital Filters and Spectral Analysis 3 |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering |
Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
This unit will cover speech and audio processing techniques widely used in multimedia engineering. The first part of the course will provide a brief description of the human auditory system and speech production mechanism. The second part will deal with compression techniques for speech including LPC analysis and CELP coders. Wideband audio compression schemes will also be covered, as exemplified by MP3 compression. A description of the compression algorithms featured in some of the international multimedia coding standards will be provided. The final part of the course will examine specific audio applications such as 3D audio, time stretching (using the phase vocoder) and some specific music synthesis techniques such as subtractive and FM synthesis.
Elements:
Speech and its Characteristics
On successful completion of the unit a student will be able to:
A combination of lectures and seminars
Exam, 2 hours, 100% (All ILOs)
L. Rabiner and B. Juang. Fundamentals of Speech Recognition. Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series. 1993.
B Gold & N Morgan, Speech and Audio Signal Processing, John Wliey & Sons, 1999