Before starting this module, you may want to look at the optional foundation material on Signals.
This module introduces a simple model of speech production will be helpful throughout the rest of the course. We’ll be using it as a theoretical concept to help us understand how speech signals are made, and therefore how we can work with them in various ways. We’ll also be seeing that is can be actually implemented and used for generating synthetic speech.
Both the theoretical concept and the practical use of this model will become very important at several places later in the course.