Month 8: Speech and Audio Processing

Month 8: Speech and Audio Processing

Week 1: Audio Signal Processing

  • Day 1: Introduction to Speech and Audio Processing
  • Day 2: Time Domain Analysis: Amplitude, Energy, Zero Crossing Rate
  • Day 3: Frequency Domain Analysis: Fourier Transform, Spectrogram
  • Day 4: Feature Extraction: MFCC, Chroma, Spectral Contrast
  • Day 5: Practical application and a mini-project

Week 2: Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech

  • Day 1: Introduction to Speech Recognition
  • Day 2: Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and GMMs in Speech Recognition
  • Day 3: Deep Learning Approaches for Speech Recognition
  • Day 4: Introduction to Text-to-Speech (TTS)
  • Day 5: Deep Learning Approaches for TTS: Tacotron, WaveNet

Week 3: Audio Classification and Segmentation

  • Day 1: Introduction to Audio Classification
  • Day 2: Machine Learning for Audio Classification: SVM, Random Forest
  • Day 3: Deep Learning for Audio Classification: CNNs, RNNs
  • Day 4: Introduction to Audio Segmentation
  • Day 5: Applications and Practical Project

Week 4: Voice Conversion and Speech Enhancement

  • Day 1: Introduction to Voice Conversion
  • Day 2: Traditional Approaches for Voice Conversion
  • Day 3: Deep Learning for Voice Conversion: AutoVC
  • Day 4: Introduction to Speech Enhancement
  • Day 5: Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation: Traditional and Deep Learning Approaches