available review speech recognition books listed linguist office available review interested reviewing book leading discussion book please contact book review editor andrew carnie carnie linguistlist org please include request message brief statement research interests background affiliation information might valuable help us select suitable reviewer speech recognition frederick jelinek 1998 statistical methods speech recognition mit press 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