Workshop on Speech Processing for beginners

A workshop on Speech Processing for beginners was organized under Center for Continuing Education, Nirma University on April 8, 2017. 21 participants including students and faculty members from various institutes attended the workshop.

Dr Hemant Patil from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar gave expert talks on Feature Extraction aspects for the Speech Processing tasks. This workshop focused on introducing the fascinating field of Speech Signal Processing to novices. The theme of the workshop was specially designed for those who wanted to just begin their career in this area of research. The objective of the workshop was to deliver to the participants sufficient knowledge of physiological aspects of Speech Science and necessary signal processing background which could serve the purpose of a prerequisite course and give them a kick start to learn fundamentals of Audio and Speech Processing. Some famous applications were also discussed including a few applications such as "Speaker Verification" as case studies. The workshop received a good response from the participants and some of them showed willingness to join Speech Research Group running at the department.