Course Syllabus . Demonstrations and listening tests will be conducted to help students grasp important concepts. Hearing aids have become a more important means of auditory rehabilitation as our life span is further extended and children with hearing loss can be diagnosed at birth or even before it. This course covers fundamental and practical issues such as types of hearing aids, amplifiers, controls, earmolds, electroacoustic measurements, psychophysical measurements, fitting and selection methods, assessments of outcomes, and rehabilitation strategies for special populations including middle-ear implants, cochlear implants, and brainstem implants. The course will be taught in a seminar style, in which both the instructor and students are expected to present.
Speech processing is one of the most fast growing areas in multimedia.
This course will examine basic principals in speech processing by man and machine, detail techniques used in speech analysis, synthesis, coding, and recognition, and provide hands-on experience in applying speech processing techniques for multimedia. Integration of audio and video information will also be discussed.