Summmer 2015
Schedule WILL change. Please check the website regularly.
| Day | Date | Morning | Afternoon |
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| Mon | June 1 | Overview: Speech Recognition Industry and Applications | Speech recogntion architecture and components |
| Rdng | The Voice in the Machine: Apples and Oranges Open the pod pay doors Hal |
Demystifying Speech Recognition--the original Demystifying Speech Recognition, Pieracchini's take | |
| Assgns | Blog assignment 1: Recognizer Review | ||
| Thurs | June 4 | Spoken Dialog Systems | Grammars and the Mashup |
| Rdng | MIT Galaxy II Architecture | Mashup Guide | |
| Assgns | Assignment 2: Grammar writing and testing | ||
| Mon | June 8 | Discourse Structure | Evaluating Reco Results |
| Rdng | Grice Incorporated, The Structure of Discourse Grosz & Sidner | ||
| Assgns | Post on Piazza about the Mobile Voice Conference by the end of the day | ||
| Thurs | June 11 | Emmet Coin: ejTalk and the Dialog Prototyper | Improving grammars, Mashup |
| Rdng | From Rule-based to Statistical Grammars | ||
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| Mon | June 15 | Dialog design: User profiles, use cases, and scenarios | Pocketsphinx |
| Rdng | Bob Morse, User Centered Design | ||
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| Thurs | June 18 | Natural language processing with Wit.ai | Evaluating Chrome Speech, comparing recognizers |
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| Tues | June 23 | Complete speech recognition evaluation | Speech Synthesis |
| Rdng | Submit all results (Mashup, Pocketsphinx & Google) EoD Monday Jue 22nd. | ||
| Assgns | Speech Synthseis review due Monday June 30th before class. |
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| Thurs | June 25 | User interface Design; VUI vs. GUI | Dialog design: Clarification dialogs and error recover |
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| Assgns | Syntesis | ||
| Mon | June 30 | Usability testing; | Group presentations on recognition and NLP; Statistical Language Modeling |
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| Assgns | Groups submit slides | ||
| Wed | July 1 | Papers: Read and discuss | Group presentation; The evolution of Personal Assistants |
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