Institute for Natural Language Processing

Experimental Phonetics

Courses

Below, only information about the course program of the division of experimental phonetics is provided. The phonetics courses are integrated into the course program of the entire IMS. For a list and description of current courses at the IMS please follow the link below.

• Undergraduate level
• Graduate level
• IMS course program

Undergraduate leveltop

• Introduction to phonetics and phonology
  (lecture in winter term; credits through final examination)

Graduate leveltop

Courses taught on a regular basis (most of them include lab exercises; credits through class project reports or final paper).

• Speech recognition I
  Introduction to the registration (instrumental methods) and interpretation (spectrogram evaluation) of acoustic phonetic data
• Speech recognition II
  Experiments in human speech perception and recognition
• Speech recognition III
  Methods in automatic speech recognition
• Experimental methods in phonetics
  Design, execution and evaluation of phonetic experiments including statistical methods
• Speech synthesis I and II
  Synthesis of segmental and suprasegmental speech information using formant and concatenative synthesis methods and the basics of text-to-speech conversion

Examples of recent seminars on specific topics (credits usually through final paper):

• Foundations of speech signal processing
• Hardware and software instrumentation in speech signal processing
• Programming in C for speech signal processing
• Speech production
• Prosody and intonation
• Laboratory phonology
• Exemplar Theory
• Voice quality
  (Tutorial: EGG and voice quality)
• Neurocognition of language
  (Tutorial: Sprache und Gehirn)

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