SLP813/814: Project in Speech and Language Processing I and II
| Availability: | Semesters 1 and 2 |
| Credit Points: | 4 per unit (total 8) |
| Convenor: | Robert Mannell |
Project Topics
SLP813/814 projects may be supervised by a staff member from either the Centre for Language Technology in the Department of Computing or the Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre in the Department of Linguistics.
Center for Language Technology
Possible projects in Natural Language Processing may be selected from the list Honours Projects on the Department of Computing web site, at http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/undergrad/honours/projects/.
You should only select projects suggested by supervisors that are, or have been, associated with this program and who work in the area of Speech or Language Technology. These potential supervisors include:-
- Steve Cassidy
- Diego Molla Aliod
- Robert Dale
- Rolf Schwitter
- Mark Dras
Selection by you of a project doesn't automatically guarantee that you will be permitted to do that project. You will need to contact the supervisor and discuss the possibility of doing the project. They may decide that the project is unsuitable for you. They may, if they wish, suggest another project that they feel is more suitable for you.
Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
If you would like to obtain more details about any of the possible projects, below, please contact Felicity Cox or Robert Mannell. Additional projects might be available, so feel free to discuss possible projects with either of us.
Felicity Cox
- Have the 5 traditional marker vowels of AE retained their sociolinguistic salience? Are listeners more reliable in identifying accent type from marked utterances compared with unmarked utterances?
- Select a single vowel phoneme and conduct acoustic analyses to examine its allophonic variation and any regionally distributed variation in realisation as evidenced from data collected in different parts of Sydney.
- Develop a technique for quantifying different types of vowel space produced by speakers of a single dialect.
Robert Mannell
A. MU-Talk projects
1. Text Preprocessor
- Sable and/or SSML input
- CSS2 Audio style sheets handler
- ToBI input
- Unicode input
- Phonetic code input handler (ANDOSL and Unicode IPA)
2. Grammatical and Semantic Processing
- Implement a simple parser for MU-Talk
- Design an intonational phrase boundary and accent parser
3. Synthesisers
- Implement LPC synthesis for MU-Talk
- Convert the SID serial formant synthesiser for use in MU-Talk
Click here for further information on MU-Talk.
B. Speech Perception projects
If you are interested in doing a project on some aspect of speech perception, contact me and we will discuss possible projects.