Contents: Preface, p. XXXI. -- 1 Fundamentals of speech recognition. p.1. -- 2. The speech signal: Production, perception, and acoustic-phonetic characterization. p.11. 3. Signal processing and analysis methods for speech recognition. p. 69. -- 4. Pattern - Comparison techniques. p. 141. -- 5. Speech recognition system design and implementation issues. p. 242. --6. Theory and implementation of hidden markov models. p. 321. -- 7. Speech recognition based on connected word models. p. 390. -- 8. Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. p. 434. -- 9. Task oriented applications of automatic speech recognition. p. 482. Incluye: referencias bibliográficas. -- Corresponde al suministro no. 33872.