Between the Signs: The Speech Communication Podcast

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Between the Signs is a companion podcast to the lecture "Speech Communication" by Sebastian Möller at Technische Universität Berlin. Each episode is a short introduction to one chapter of the course: what the topic is about, why it matters, and which question it answers. The big picture, not the details.The series follows the chain that carries a thought from one head to another. What speech actually is. How a speech signal can be described at all. Where its properties come from in the human vocal tract. How a recording can be taken apart again. What the ear does with it, and what it fails to hear. How a phone call survives being squeezed to a fraction of its data. And how machines learned to listen, to talk, and to hold a conversation.The episodes are made for students preparing for the next session, but they need no prior reading and nothing in front of you: no slides, no formulas, no figures. Anyone curious about how speech works — as physics, as linguistics and as engineering —