Lesson 1
Course Introduction
Introduce the course outline and the course prerequisite
Communicating with Natural Language
Course
Learn voice user interface techniques that turn speech into text and vice versa. Build a speech recognition model using deep neural networks.
Learn voice user interface techniques that turn speech into text and vice versa. Build a speech recognition model using deep neural networks.
Advanced
4 weeks
Real-world Projects
Completion Certificate
Last Updated April 17, 2023
Alexa skill creation • Speech recognition • Voice user interfaces • Alexa skill deployment
Intermediate Python • Neural network basics • Basic probability
Course Lessons
Lesson 2
Intro to Voice User Interfaces
Get acquainted with the principles and applications of VUI, and get introduced to Alexa skills.
Lesson 3
(Optional) Alexa History Skill
Build your own Alexa skill and deploy it!
Lesson 4
Speech Recognition
Learn how an automatic speech recognition (ASR) pipeline works.
Lesson 5 • Project
Project: DNN Speech Recognizer
Build a deep neural network that functions as part of an end-to-end automatic speech recognition pipeline.
Taught By The Best
Dana Sheahan
Content Developer
Dana is an electrical engineer with a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Her work experience includes software development for embedded systems in the Automotive Group at Motorola, where she was awarded a patent for an onboard operating system.
Luis Serrano
Instructor
Luis was formerly a Machine Learning Engineer at Google. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.
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