# Introduction to Speech Processing : Preface

Created by Tom Bäckström, last modified on Jun 10, 2019

This is a collection of pedagogical material within the topic of speech and language technology. The idea is to provide

- teachers material for their courses, where they can pick and choose material which is appropriate for their own courses.
- self-study material on-line for anyone interested.

By licensing the material under creative commons (share alike), we want to encourage people to contribute improvements and additions to the content.

Edit-access will be granted by mailto:tom.backstrom@aalto.fi

## Design philosophy of this document

- Target audience
  - Primary target:
    - Master's level students with some background in digital signal processing (=signals and systems), machine learning, linear algebra and stochastic processes
  - Secondary targets:
    - Researchers in related areas who want to expand their expertise, for example, researchers in machine learning, signal processing, audio processing, linguistics, human-computer interfaces etc
- Keep a pedagogical approach
  - Explain why this tool is needed and how it solves a problem.
  - Give an example of how it is used in practice, including demonstrations and pictures.
  - Favour tools which everyone are using, rather than inventions of your own team
- Small steps
  - Better to have something than nothing. Though it is a good direction, reaching perfection is not a requirement.
  - Fix errors immediately when you find one.

## Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.