The Fundamentals of Speech Recognition course consists of two parts: the theory track, which is organized as a series of 45 one-hour lectures; and an implementation track that consists of exercises based on the ISIP public domain recognizer. The goal of this course is to develop a working knowledge of large vocabulary conversational speech recognition. Students will learn the theory behind state-of-the-art systems, and have a chance to experiment with such systems on leading edge tasks such as the conversational speech database known as Switchboard.