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MIT OpenCourseWare
Conversational Computer Systems
Art: PSM V21 D055 The brewster stereoscope 1849, 1882 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Mr. Christopher Schmandt
- Term
- Fall 2008
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 7 problem sets · 1 reading · 34 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare MAS.632 Conversational Computer Systems, Fall 2008, Mr. Christopher Schmandt — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Readings
19 files
- Speech as Communication Download
- Speech Production and Perception Download
- Speech Coding Download
- Applications and Editing of Stored Voice Download
- Speech Synthesis Download
- Interactive Voice Response Download
- Speech Recognition Download
- Using Speech Recognition Download
- Higher Levels of Linguistic Knowledge Download
- Basics of Telephones Download
- Telephones and Computers Download
- Desktop Audio Download
- Toward More Robust Communication Download
- Conversational Computer Systems Download
- Front Matter Download
- Bibliography and Index Download
- Wide Band and Narrow Band Spectrogram Examples Download
- Techniques, Perception, and Applications of Time-Compressed Speech Download
- A Review of The Cocktail Party Effect Download
Assignments
7 problem sets
Other materials from this course
15 files
- Speech as Communication Download
- Higher Levels of Linguistic Knowledge Download
- Speech Production and Perception Download
- Speech Coding Download
- Applications and Editing of Stored Voice Download
- Speech Synthesis Download
- Interactive Voice Response Download
- Speech Recognition Download
- Using Speech Recognition Download
- Basics of Telephones Download
- Telephones and Computers Download
- Desktop Audio Download
- Toward More Robust Communication Download
- Bibliography and Index Download
- Front Matter Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Components of conversation and speech production
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Lecture 3: Speech production and hearing
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Lecture 4: Speech coding
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Lecture 5: Accessing recorded speech
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Lecture 6: Speech synthesis
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Lecture 7: Review of problem sets and speech recognition intro
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Lecture 8: Hidden Markov models
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Lecture 9: Applications of recognition: retrieval in voice docs
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Lecture 10: Discourse
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Lecture 11: Identity, community, and participation
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Lecture 12: Presence and being there
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Lecture 13: Managing interruption
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