LECTURE 01: COURSE OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES

• Objectives:
  
  
  • Learn about basic technology
  • Understand theory at a fundamental level
  • Relate to other theory such pattern recognition, signal processing, computational linguistics, etc.
  • Develop perspective: Are the approaches we use specific to a speech signal?
  
  
• What we won't do:
  
  
  • Computer programming
  • Computer simulations
  • Matlab exercises
  • Teach you how to tune parameters
  • Train you to be speech technologists...
  
  
• Why?