Book Description
The advent of powerful computing devices and ubiquitous multimedia information distribution has triggered a wave of new approaches in pattern recognition. This book fills the need for a systematic and up-to-date presentation of the fundamentals and recent developments in the field of speech and language processing. It begins with the basics and recent theoretical advances, emphasizing classifier design criteria and optimization procedures. Discussions then move to topics in speech recognition and finally to language processing. Numerous examples of practical applications and real system descriptions make this a truly comprehensive treatment of an important and rapidly growing field.

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