SIG Teaching: [Institution]

Education for Master's ("specialist's") degree Speech technology can be studied as the major subject at the Dept. of Phonetics of SPbSU only.

At present Master's level studies take 6 years.

Since our university has adopted 2-level education (bachelor + master) starting from 2005, we are working on the curricula and teaching programs similar to those of Euromaster in Language Technology. It has started in 2005-2006 academic year. This curricula includes Bachelor's level studies of 4 years followed by 2 years of Master's level.

Research in language technology History of the department

Areas of expertise

Department of Phonetics, Saint Petersburg State University.

- automatic text processing: parsing, automatic phonemic and phonetic transcriptions, intonation transcription; - computer-assisted speech signal analysis and modification; -speech signal segmentation (including automatic segmentation) into sounds, intonation units, phrases; -automatic pitch tracking; -acoustic databases, speech corpora, speech synthesis, speech recognition, computer-assisted language learning programs.

International projects the Department of Phonetics is envolved in:

NORFA network on "Variation in speech production and speech perception" (Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia).

Experience in distant learning

There are some experience in distant learning in the Department of Phonetics. Several multimedia training appliances were made in the Department of Phonetics. For example the training appliance The History of Phonetics

Courses offered

• Speech Technology
  • Speech Synthesis, Text to Speech 5 credits
  • Speech Recognition, Speech to Text 5 credits  
  • Machine Understanding of Speech 4 credits  
  • Automatic Speech Signal Processing and Interpretation 5 credits
  • Data processing 6 credits
• Phonetics
  • General Phonetics 6 credits 
  • Speech perception 
  • Interference of Sound Systems 5 credits 
  • Phonetic features of different speech types 3 credits 
  • Methods of Intonation study and description 4 credits 
  • Information technology in phonetic research 4 credits

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