1. Linguistic, phonetic and information theories in relationship to speech communication
2. Relationship between theoretical approaches to speech communication and the development and application of speech technological systems
3. Computational models of speech communication
4. Review of scientific methods used in investigating speech communication
1. Describe the theoretical basis for the speech communication process in terms of linguistics, phonetics and information theory.
2. Account for the implications of speech communication theories in speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition and multimodal spoken dialogue systems.
3. Describe current scientific methods used in investigating speech communication processes.