SPEECH-RELATED
COURSES AT UCLA
The Phonetics Lab is part of the Linguistics Department, which offers undergraduate
and graduate courses in phonetics. These include the courses listed
here, plus one-time graduate pro-seminars, a practicum course ("spectrogram
reading") and weekly research seminars. Undergraduate linguistics courses
have their individual course webpages (accessible through E-campus).
Linguistics 103: Introduction to General
Phonetics (undergraduate)
Linguistics 104/204: Experimental Phonetics
(undergraduate and graduate)
Linguistics C111/C211: Intonation
(undergraduate and graduate)
Linguistics 203: Phonetic Theory
(graduate)
- to appear: Linguistics 204b: Speech Production (graduate)
Other courses that could be of interest include (no guarantees that
these courses are still offered):
(many other relevant psychology
courses such as learning, perception, motor coordination, ...)
- Biostatistics 234: Applied Bayesian inference
- Biostatistics 236: Repeated Measures designs
Linguistics Department
Linguistics 103: Introduction to General Phonetics
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Prerequisite: one prior linguistics
course or course 20 (Introduction to Linguistics) concurrently. Phonetics
of a variety of languages and phonetic phenomena that occur in languages of
the world. Extensive practice in perception and production of such phenomena.
(click here
for some teaching materials)
Linguistics 104/204: Experimental Phonetics
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite: course 103. Survey
of principal techniques of experimental phonetics. Use of laboratory equipment
for recording and measuring phonetic phenomena. (Official 204 description:
Use of laboratory equipment to investigate articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual
properties of speech. Topics include experimental design and statistics;
theoretical basis of acoustic structure of speech sounds; computer-based speech
processing, analysis, and modeling; perceptual and acoustic evaluation of
synthetic speech.)
(click here
for some teaching materials)
Linguistics C111/C211: Intonation
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Requisites: courses 20, 103, 120A
or 120B. Recommended:
course 104/204. Survey of intonational theory for English and other languages,
with particular emphasis on phonological models
of intonation. Laboratory equipment used for recording and analyzing intonation,
and students learn to transcribe intonational
elements. Concurrently scheduled with course C211.
Linguistics 203: Phonetic Theory
Prerequisite: course 120A (Phonology I). Preliminaries to speech analysis.
Functional anatomy of vocal organs; fundamental principals of acoustics and
of acoustic theory of speech production; issues in perception of speech; nature
and design of feature systems for phonetic and phonological analysis.
Electrical Engineering Department
EE 114: Speech and Image Processing
Lecture, three hours; recitation, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Prerequisite:
course 113 (Digital Signal Processing). Basic principles of data acquisition,
filtering, feature extraction, transforms. Acoustic theory of speech production,
speech analysis techniques, and modeling perceptual mechanisms in first half
of the course; image representation and basic image processing techniques
in second half. Lecture supplemented by computer laboratory assignments.
Texts: Speech Communication, Douglas O' Shaughnessy; Two Dimensional Signal
and Image Processing, Jae Lim
EE 190D: Systems Design
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Prerequisites:
courses 113, 132A, 141. Advanced systems design integrating communications,
control, and signal processing subsystems. Different project to be assigned
yearly in which student teams create high-performance designs that manage
trade-offs among subsystems. More...
EE 214: Digital Speech Processing
Graduate level course on the theory and applications of digital processing
of speech signals. Mathematical models of human speech production and perception
mechanisms, speech analysis/synthesis techniques including linear-prediction,
filter-bank models, and homomorphic filtering. Applications to speech synthesis,
automatic speech recognition and hearing aids.
Prerequisites: solid understanding of linear systems and the fundamentals
of Digital Signal Processing (EE 113 or equivalent).
Text: Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Rabiner and Schafer
EE 214B: Advanced Topics in Speech Processing
Advanced techniques used in various speech-processing applications, with
focus on speech recognition by humans and machines, and on speech and audio
coding for digital communication channels. Physiology and psychoacoustics
of human perception. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM)
for automatic speech recognition systems, pattern classification, and search
algorithms. Aids for the hearing impaired.
Prerequisites: course 214A.
Text: Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Rabiner and Juang, plus course
notes.
Biology Department
Biology M173: Anatomy and Physiology of Sense Organs
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: courses 171 (Principles
of Neurobiology) or M175A-M175B (Neuroscience: from Molecules to Mind), or
equivalent. Structure and function of sense organs. Adoption of quantitative
and comparative approach to provide insight into evolution of sense organs
in both invertebrates and vertebrates.
Biology 243: Animal Communication
Lecture, three hours; discussion one hour. Prerequisites: Mathematics 3C,
Physics 6C, consent of instructor. Open to qualified undergraduates with consent
of instructor. Physical properties of animal signals and physiological mechanisms
underlying their generation and reception. Lectures treat signal analysis,
signal transmission, and receptor design in light of constraints placed on
each of the sensory modalities. Examples of communication systems using visual,
auditory, chemical, electrical, and magnetic cues, with emphasis on biological
adaptations for efficiently signaling species-specific information.
[Back
to the Phonetics Lab Homepage]