Remarkable progress is being made in spoken language processing, but many powerful techniques have remained hidden in conference proceedings and academic papers

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an emerging field in between speech and language processing, investigating human/ machine and human/ human communication

This book describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation.

An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language. Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and e