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🎙️ Speech, Forecasting and Recommenders · Section 069

🎙️ Speech and Audio AI

Teaching computers to hear, transcribe and speak.

Every lesson in this section is written by Pranay Mahendrakar.

12 of 12 lessons published · Three reading levels on every lesson

Start with “How computers hear sound”

Lessons in order

Work top to bottom. Each lesson assumes the one above it.

  1. 01 How computers hear sound
  2. 02 Waveforms and spectrograms
  3. 03 Audio features and MFCCs
  4. 04 Speech recognition
  5. 05 Whisper
  6. 06 Text to speech
  7. 07 Speaker identification
  8. 08 Audio classification
  9. 09 Noise reduction
  10. 10 Wake-word detection
  11. 11 Voice cloning and its risks
  12. 12 Real-time audio pipelines
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