Overview

Spring 2016 Goals

• Tighten up GMM Classifier
• Choose and test accents by GROUPS (based on similarity)
• Build web app
• Testing?
• Write up Thesis
• Submit to conferences

Fall 2015 Semester Overview

Monthly Goals

• September: Probability & Machine Learning
• October: Speech & Signal Processing
• November: Start building system
• December: Work on prototype

The Project: Accent Detection System

Misc. Notes

• use pre-existing data (CSLU Foreign-Accented English dataset)
• Goals
  1. replicate existing system
  2. change parameters (use meaningful linguistic theory)
  3. make system available as web app