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Lecture 27 Blog, ECE438 Fall 2013, Prof. Boutin

Wednesday October 23, 2013 (Week 10) - See Course Outline.

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Today we continued talking about speech. More specifically, we focused on how the human lungs+vocal folds+vocal tract produce voiced phonemes, beginning with a periodic pulse train of air flow. We proposed modeling the vocal tract as an LTI filter and approximating this filter by a sequence of tubes.

Relevant Rhea pages

• speech lecture notes written by one of my students last year
• A student page on digital speech generation
• A student page on speech spectrograms
• A student page describing the difference between male and female voices

Action items

• Keep working on HW8. It is due Friday.

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