Preface

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.