Contents

 
• Ankündigung
• Timetable
• Notes on student group reports
• Unit 1: Acoustics
• Unit 2: Digital signal processing
  • Goals
• Unit 3: Speech production
  • Goals, discussion of Speech production model
  • Interactive visual model synthesiser
  • Test models
    • Speech production model 2
    • Speech production model 3
    • Speech production model 4
    • Speech production model 5
    • Speech production model 6
    • Speech production model 7
• Unit 4: Visualisation
  • Goals
  • Visualisation from a linguistic point of view:
  • Practical models
  • Animated models
  • Graphics and videoformats
• Unit 5: Vowels
• Unit 6: Consonant acoustics
• Unit 7: Visualising consonants
• Unit 8: Pitch patterns and speech synthesis
  • Goals
  • Pitch in concatenative speech synthesis: HYPRSYN
    • Quality considerations for concatenative TTS synthesis
    • Design specification of the concatenative digit synthesiser
    • Pitch pattern formalised as FST
    • Evaluation of HYPRSYN
    • Suggestions for further development
• Unit 9: Visualising pitch
• Unit 10: Gestures and Paralinguistics
  • Facial Expression and Speaking -- Report by Ulrich Grün
    • Introduction to Nonverbal Communication
    • Facial Expression and Eye Behaviour
      • Historical Views on Facial Expression
      • Are Facial Expression and Emotion Synonyms?
      • Facial Management Techniques ([Malandro, Barker & Barker 1989])
      • Functions of Eye Behaviour
    • The Facial Mask
  • Nonverbal communication -- Report by Silke Kölsch
    • State-of-the-art: two major approaches
    • Categories of gestures
    • Sign Languages
    • Prosody
    • Body posture and turn-taking
• References
• Unit 11: The representation of gesture (Guest lecture)
• Unit 12: The ILEX architecture
• References