new book speech recognition following book readers list might find interest information please visit http mitpress mit edu promotions books jelshf97 statistical methods speech recognition frederick jelinek book reflects decades important research mathematical foundations speech recognition focuses underlying statistical techniques hidden markov models decision trees expectationmaximization algorithm information theoretic goodness criteria maximum entropy probability estimation parameter data clustering smoothing probability distributions author goal present principles clearly simplest setting show advantages selforganization real data enable reader apply techniques language speech communication series bradford book january 1998 35 00 cloth 300 pp isbn 0262 10066 5 mit press