Speech Recognition Engineering
Free Advanced course · 10 lessons · 4 weeks · Certificate on completion
Build and fine-tune automatic speech recognition for accents, domains and noisy audio. Across 10 lessons you'll move from fundamentals to a portfolio-ready outcome — at your own pace, with quizzes after each lesson and a final exam to certify your mastery.
What you'll learn
- How ASR systems work
- Audio features and spectrograms
- CTC and attention models
- Whisper and wav2vec 2.0
- Fine-tuning on domain audio
- Handling accents and noise
Skills you'll pick up
- How ASR systems work
- Audio features and spectrogram
- CTC and attention models
- Whisper and wav2vec 2.0
- Fine-tuning on domain audio
- Handling accents and noise
Tools covered
- Speech Recognition
- Real-world projects
- Quizzes
- Final exam
Course modules
Module 1: How ASR systems work
Module 1 of Speech Recognition Engineering. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 2: Whisper and wav2vec 2.0
Module 2 of Speech Recognition Engineering. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 3: Word error rate and evaluation
Module 3 of Speech Recognition Engineering. 2 lessons · 2h
Module 4: Streaming recognition
Module 4 of Speech Recognition Engineering. 2 lessons · 2h
Lessons in this course
- How ASR systems work
- Audio features and spectrograms
- CTC and attention models
- Whisper and wav2vec 2.0
- Fine-tuning on domain audio
- Handling accents and noise
- Word error rate and evaluation
- Diarisation basics
- Streaming recognition
- Deploying ASR cost-effectively
Instructor
Tomás Herrera — Staff Data Scientist
Tomás Herrera is a Staff Data Scientist with years of hands-on experience teaching Speech Recognition to thousands of learners worldwide.
Certificate
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn a free, verifiable Learnera certificate for Speech Recognition Engineering. It can be downloaded as a PDF and shared on LinkedIn.
Career outcomes
Median global salary $155,000 per year · median India salary ₹21,70,000 per year · 66,770 open roles worldwide
- Speech Recognition Specialist
- Senior Speech Recognition Lead
- Speech Recognition Consultant
Frequently asked questions
Is the Speech Recognition Engineering course free?
Yes. Every Learnera course, including Speech Recognition Engineering, is completely free — lessons, quizzes, the final exam, and the certificate.
How long does Speech Recognition Engineering take?
10 lessons, typically completed in 4 weeks at a comfortable pace.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — pass the final exam and you receive a free, verifiable certificate you can share on LinkedIn.