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.

Advanced

3 weeks

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated June 19, 2024

Skills you'll learn:

Alexa skill creation • Speech recognition • Voice user interfaces • Alexa skill deployment

Prerequisites:

Intermediate Python • Neural network basics • Basic probability

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Course Introduction

Introduce the course outline and the course prerequisite

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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