ROBAI 401 - Language and Speech Technology

5.0 Credits
The course offers a practical understanding of how human speech can be processed by computers and robots. Students build speech recognition, speech synthesis, and spoken dialog systems. Topics include algorithms, techniques, and limitations of state-of-the-art speech systems.
Prerequisite CIS 233 and ROBAI 380.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Explore the challenges, strategies, and technologies that relate to speech and language recognition and processing.
Compare the different statistical methods in NLP, and discuss advantages, limitations, and applications of the different approaches.
Develop, build, and evaluate algorithms for natural language processing, linguistic analysis, and language generation.
Design, build, and evaluate speech recognition, speech synthesis, and spoken dialog systems.
Explain limitations of current speech and language technologies, and research and present emerging new approaches.

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