available review speech recognition book list below linguist office available review interest review book lead discussion book please contact our book review editor andrew carnie carnie linguistlist org please include request message brief statement research interest background affiliation information valuable help us select suitable reviewer speech recognition frederick jelinek statistical method speech recognition mit press 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 