I have found that students do better when they come from particular backgrounds.
This course assumes no particular background knowledge, but you’ll get more out of it if you know a little bit already about either speech, sound in general (including music), engineering, or computer science.
2 minutes 20 seconds
Now we will look at the speech chain to understand the scope of this course and to set the context for the two main applications that we will consider: text-to-speech synthesis, and automatic speech recognition.
5 minutes 4 seconds
…and if you are still trying to decide if this is the course for you, watch this video about a nice application of text-to-speech technology.
