"The book addresses real-world problems of current interest regarding automatic speech recognition. ... This book is useful for all researchers working in automatic speech recognition as well as in real-world applications of deep learning." (Ruxandra Stoean, zbMATH 1356.68004, 2017)

• Section 1: Automatic speech recognition: Background.- Feature extraction: basic frontend.- Acoustic model: Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model.- Language model: stochastic N-gram.- Historical reviews of speech recognition research: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5th, and 4th generations.- Section 2: Advanced feature extraction and transformation.- Unsupervised feature extraction.- Discriminative feature transformation.- Section 3: Advanced acoustic modeling.- Conditional random field (CRF) and hidden conditional random field (HCRF).- Deep-Structured CRF.- Semi-Markov conditional random field.- Deep stacking models.- Deep neural network – hidden Markov hybrid model.- Section 4: Advanced language modeling.- Discriminative Language model.- Log-linear language model.- Neural network language model.

"The book addresses real-world problems of current interest regarding automatic speech recognition. ... This book is useful for all researchers working in automatic speech recognition as well as in real-world applications of deep learning." (Ruxandra Stoean, zbMATH 1356.68004, 2017)

• Section 1: Automatic speech recognition: Background.- Feature extraction: basic frontend.- Acoustic model: Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model.- Language model: stochastic N-gram.- Historical reviews of speech recognition research: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5th, and 4th generations.- Section 2: Advanced feature extraction and transformation.- Unsupervised feature extraction.- Discriminative feature transformation.- Section 3: Advanced acoustic modeling.- Conditional random field (CRF) and hidden conditional random field (HCRF).- Deep-Structured CRF.- Semi-Markov conditional random field.- Deep stacking models.- Deep neural network – hidden Markov hybrid model.- Section 4: Advanced language modeling.- Discriminative Language model.- Log-linear language model.- Neural network language model.

"The book addresses real-world problems of current interest regarding automatic speech recognition. ... This book is useful for all researchers working in automatic speech recognition as well as in real-world applications of deep learning." (Ruxandra Stoean, zbMATH 1356.68004, 2017)

• Section 1: Automatic speech recognition: Background.- Feature extraction: basic frontend.- Acoustic model: Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model.- Language model: stochastic N-gram.- Historical reviews of speech recognition research: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5th, and 4th generations.- Section 2: Advanced feature extraction and transformation.- Unsupervised feature extraction.- Discriminative feature transformation.- Section 3: Advanced acoustic modeling.- Conditional random field (CRF) and hidden conditional random field (HCRF).- Deep-Structured CRF.- Semi-Markov conditional random field.- Deep stacking models.- Deep neural network – hidden Markov hybrid model.- Section 4: Advanced language modeling.- Discriminative Language model.- Log-linear language model.- Neural network language model.