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Computer Sciences

Introduction to Speech and Machine Learning

When:

12 August - 16 August 2024

School:

UEF Summer School

Institution:

University of Eastern Finland

City:

Joensuu

Country:

Finland

Language:

English

Credits:

3.0 EC

Fee:

300 EUR

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About

Introductory machine learning contains self-contained introduction to elementary supervised and unsupervised learning. Evaluation of binary classifiers (e.g. type-I/II errors, ROC analysis). Introduction to modern deep learning approaches (feedforward, convolutive, recurrent). Basic idea of graph neural networks. Introductory speech processing will include speech as a carrier of linguistic information; basics of speech analysis and feature extraction, and statistical modeling. We will illustrate these ideas through application examples ranging from gender recognition, to voice biometrics (speaker recognition), speech recognition, and detection of spoofing attacks (such as audio-based deepfakes). The course contains also topics that introduce the student to research in this field, stemming from research done at the Computational Speech Group at UEF.

The teaching modes will include offline tasks (to be completed prior to contact teaching); lectures and exercises as part of in-campus teaching.

Course leader

Tomi Kinnunen (tomi.kinnunen@uef.fi)

Target group

Master, Doctoral

Course aim

Learning aims: to learn basics about speech and machine learning, and have a gist on research done in the field of speech processing.

Interested?

When:

12 August - 16 August 2024

School:

UEF Summer School

Institution:

University of Eastern Finland

Language:

English

Credits:

3.0 EC

Fee:

300 EUR, Course fee. The course fee for UEF partner university students is 250 e.

Fee:

200 EUR, The course fee for exchange students starting at UEF in autumn 2024.

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