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Schedule (Spring 2025)

Week Date Type Topic Readings
Week 1 Tue, Jan 21 Lecture Course introduction: from analogue to digital signal Lynn and Fuerst, Chapter 1.1
  Thu, Jan 23 Lab session Lab environment setup on students’ computers
Week 2 Tue, Jan 28 Lecture Signal waveform and properties Rosen and Howell, Chapters 2 & 3
  Thu, Jan 30 Lab session
Week 3 Tue, Feb 04 Lecture Sampling and quantisation Rosen and Howell, Chapter 14
Lynn and Fuerst, Chapter 1.2
  Thu, Feb 06 Lab session
Week 4 Tue, Feb 11 Lecture Digital audio format. Reading and writing WAV file
  Thu, Feb 13 Lab session
Week 5 Tue, Feb 18 Lecture Sound intensity and pressure Rosen and Howell, Chapter 3
  Thu, Feb 20 Lab session
Week 6 Tue, Feb 25 Lecture LTI system I - Principles Rosen and Howell, Chapter 4
Lynn and Fuerst, Chapter 2.2
  Thu, Feb 27 Lab session
Week 7 Tue, Mar 04 Lecture LTI system II - Impulse response and convolution Rosen and Howell, Chapter 9
Lynn and Fuerst, Chapters 2.3, 2.4
  Thu, Mar 06 Lab session
Week 8 Tue, Mar 11 Lecture Discrete Fourier Transform and spectrum Rosen and Howell, Chapter 7
Lynn and Fuerst, Chapter 7
  Thu, Mar 13 Lab session Mid-term assessment
Week 9 Tue, Mar 18   SPRING BREAK
  Thu, Mar 20 SPRING BREAK
Week 10 Tue, Mar 25 Lecture Spectra over time: Spectrogram Rosen and Howell, Chapter 11
Lynn and Fuerst, Chapter 8.2
  Thu, Mar 27 Lab session
Week 11 Tue, Apr 01 Lecture Digital filters and filter design I Rosen and Howell, Chapters 6 & 8
Ben Gold et al., Chapter 7.2
  Thu, Apr 03 Lab session
Week 12 Tue, Apr 08 Lecture Digital filters and filter design II Rosen and Howell, Chapter 10
  Thu, Apr 10 Lab session
Week 13 Tue, Apr 15 Lecture Speech parameter extraction: Time domain I Wiki for zero-crossing and Voice Activity Detection
  Thu, Apr 17 Lab session
Week 14 Tue, Apr 22 Lecture Speech parameter extraction: Time domain II Ben Gold et al., Chapter 31
Wiki for pitch detection algorithms and Autocorrelation
  Thu, Apr 24 Lab session
Week 15 Tue, Apr 29 Lecture Speech parameter extraction: Frequency domain I Ben Gold et al., Chapter 21
Wiki for spectral centroid and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC)
  Thu, May 01 Lab session End-term assessment
Week 16 Tue, May 06 Lecture Speech parameter extraction: Frequency domain II
Ben Gold et al., Chapter 20
Wiki for Cepstrum analysis and MFCC
  Thu, May 08 Reading day