MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016 Activities by Sponsor - Ms. Tuka Waddah Al Hanai



Technologies for Speech and Language Processing

Tuka AlHanai, Research Assistant at CSAIL, Mandy Korpusik, Research Assistant at CSAIL

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Some programming experience.

Do you want to build your very own Siri? Ever cared to automatically detect sentiment? Curious about what can be done with the 6,000+ languages out there? This course covers some of the hottest topics and technologies in the domain of Speech and Language Processing, the playground of Amazon, Google, and Apple. You'll be learning theory on acoustic-phonetics, machine learning, natural language processing, and techniques for data collection. You'll leave with working knowledge on some of the tools available and the potential of their usage for your next project, hackathon, and start-up.

Sign-up Here

Contact: Tuka Al Hanai, 32-G424, TUKA@MIT.EDU


Acoustic Phonetics

Jan/08 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 66-148, Bring your laptop

Language Modeling

Jan/11 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM 66-148, Bring your laptop

Acoustic Modeling

Jan/13 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 66-148, Bring your laptop

Building a Recognizer

Jan/15 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 66-148, Bring your laptop

Bringing Speech Tech to the World

Jan/19 Tue 02:00PM-04:00PM 66-148, Bring your laptop