K. Sreenivasa Rao, PhD is an Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), Anil Kumar Vuppala, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad).

From the book reviews: "The authors provide comprehensive coverage of major speech processing techniques. ... The book is written in simple English and is easy to read. Students and researchers working in speech processing will find it useful." (S. Ramakrishnan, Computing Reviews, August, 2014) "This book is based on Vuppala's PhD thesis ... . It is indeed a commendable exercise to place details of a research work before a wider audience. ... Research scholars working in the domains of signal processing, speech, and speaker recognition systems will find this book very useful." (C. K. Raju, Computing Reviews, May, 2014)

• Introduction.- Background and Literature Review.- Vowel Onset Point Detection from Coded and Noisy Speech.- Consonant-Vowel Recognition in Presence of Coding and Background Noise.- Spotting and Recognition of Consonant-Vowel Units from Continuous Speech.- Speaker Identification and Time Scale Modification Using VOPs.- Summary and Conclusions.- MFCC Features.- Speech Orders.- Pattern Recognition Models.