·20.1 Early Efforts in Speech Recognition(Goal: Learn about thehistory and challengesof getting machines to understand spoken language, from the 1950s onward.)
20.2 How Computers Recognize Speech – The Basics(Goal: Explain thespeech recognition pipeline– converting audio signals into text using features and models.)
20.3 How Deep Learning Changed the Game(Goal: See howdeep neural networksimproved 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 toconversational AI– what it takes beyond speech recognition to have a full dialogue, and why it’s challenging but forthcoming.)