Three MATLAB exercises covering speech signal analysis and principles of linear prediction, formant synthesis and speech recognition are described. These exercises, which are assessed components in an elective course on speech and language processing, enable undergraduate electrical engineering students to explore fundamentally important concepts in speech science and signal processing.
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