WSQ - Design an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) System

Topic 1: ASR Systems and Applications in Business

• ASR systems and their role in businesses
• Audio representation and techniques - spectrogram and MFCC
• Designing ASR applications based on business requirements 

Topic 2: ASR Fundamentals

• Introduction to Python and Pytorch packages for speech processing
• Natural language processing with RNN, LSTM architectures
• Language models and common ASR architectures 
• Greedy search and beam search techniques 

Topic 3: Siamese Network Systems

• Object detection with CNN architectures 
• Siamese network systems - contrastive loss, triplet loss 

Topic 4: Encoder-Decoder Systems

• Audio augmentation techniques 
• Encoder-Decoder architecture for ASR 
• Metrics and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) for ASR evaluation 

Topic 5: Building and ASR system and Ethical Considerations

• Speech enhancement techniques 
• Building an ASR system 
• AI Ethics considerations 

Assessment

• Written Assessment (Q&A)
• Practical Performance

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Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

• Able to operate using computer functions
• Minimum Polytechnic Diploma
• Basic programming skill, preferably Python.

Attitude

• Positive Learning Attitude
• Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

• Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

Download and Install the following software

• Python
• Visual Studio Code
• Anacoda

Sign up free Google Colab account

Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops

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• Log in to your U Portal account to submit your UTAP application upon completion of the course.

Note

• SSG subsidy is available for Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents, and Corporates.
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• An unfunded course fee can be claimed via SkillsFuture Credit or paid in cash.
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• Speech Recognition Engineer
• Audio Signal Processing Engineer
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engineer
• Voice User Interface (VUI) Designer
• Machine Learning Engineer
• Data Scientist
• Acoustic Modeler
• Speech Data Analyst
• Voice Application Developer
• Robotics Engineer
• IoT Developer (with voice control focus)
• Voice Technology Consultant
• AI Research Scientist
• Software Engineer (with focus on voice applications)
• Human-Computer Interaction Specialist

Solomon Soh Zhe Hong: Solomon is ACTA certified and has trained and coached over 100 professionals in the area of data science, python programming and coding. Solomon is a Certified AI Engineer Associate by AI Singapore and holds certifications in Alibaba Cloud Architect and Alteryx respectively. Solomon interests include Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing and Time-Series analysis.

Dr. Alfred Ang: Dr. Alfred Ang is the founder of Tertiary Courses. He is a serial entrepreneur. He founded OSWeb2Design Singapore Pte Ltd in 2007 offering web development, e-commerce store development, graphics design, ebook publishing, mobile apps development, and digital marketing services. He established the first online gardening store in Singapore, Eco City Hydroponics Pte Ltd in 2000, offering a wide range of gardening products such as seeds, plant nutrients, hydroponics kits etc. Eco City Hydroponics has become the most popular and successful gardening store in Singapore. He founded Tertiary Infotech Pte Ltd in 2012 and transformed the business to a training platform, Tertiary Courses in 2014. Tertiary Courses offers a wide range of SkillsFuture courses for PMETs to upgrade their skills and knowledge. He also established Tertiary Courses Malaysia in 2016. He also founded Tertiary Robotics in 2015 offering Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Microbit and Robotics products

Dr. Alfred Ang earned his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in 2000, majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He also completed an online MBA course with U21 Global based in Australia. He obtained his B.Sc (Hons) from National University of Singapore in 1992, majoring in Physics. He topped his Physics cohort for 3 consecutive years and funded his degree study with Book price, awards and tuition. He has worked in Defence, Electronics and Semiconductor Industries. His current interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics and Programming.

Dr. Alfred Ang is a ACTA certified trainer and DACE certified course developer. He was Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) and Senior Member of IEEE. He has published more than 20 peer reviewed papers and co-inventors for more than 20 inventions.