Section outline

    • ·         20.1 Early Efforts in Speech Recognition (Goal: Learn about the history and challenges of getting machines to understand spoken language, from the 1950s onward.)

      • 20.2 How Computers Recognize Speech – The Basics (Goal: Explain the speech recognition pipeline – converting audio signals into text using features and models.)
      • 20.3 How Deep Learning Changed the Game (Goal: See how deep neural networks improved speech recognition by learning features and patterns automatically, surpassing older methods.)
      • 20.4 Hands-On: Training a Simple Speech Recognizer (Goal: Illustrate via a simple example how one might train a deep learning model to recognize a few specific words.)
      • 20.5 The Future – Conversing with AI (Goal: Look ahead to conversational AI – what it takes beyond speech recognition to have a full dialogue, and why it’s challenging but forthcoming.)