book speech recognition follow book reader list interest information please visit http mitpress mit edu promotion book jelshf statistical method speech recognition frederick jelinek book reflect decade important research mathematical foundation speech recognition focus underlie statistical technique hide markov model decision tree expectationmaximization algorithm information theoretic goodness criterion maximum entropy probability estimation parameter datum cluster smooth probability distribution author s goal present principle clearly simplest set show advantage selforganization real datum enable reader apply technique language speech communication series bradford book january cloth pp isbn mit press 