Inclusive Speech Technology

In Inclusive Speech Technology, students learn fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications in speech technology, with a strong focus on fairness and inclusivity, i.e., developing speech technology that can be used by everyone, irrespective of how one speaks. The course teaches students the fundamentals about human speech production and automatic speech processing and production techniques with a focus on statistical methods and deep learning. The focus of the course is on developing skills for developing speech-based applications that can be used in conversational AI applications. Knowledge will be obtained through interactive lectures; while research skills will be developed in weekly labs in which concrete speech technology applications will be built.