Foreword ...xivPreface ...xviAcknowledgements ...xxivList of Contributors ...xxvi1. Speech Technology - An Introduction ...1 to 132. Issues in Speaker Identification over Telephone Channels ...19 to 463. Statistical Apatterns of Phoneme and Consonant Sequences in some Indian languages :Their Relevance to speech Technology ...61 to 774. An Approach to Building Lexical Resources ....77 to 855. Spoken Corpora in Linguistic analysis ...86 to 966. A Unification - based Approach to Two - level Phonology ...97 to 1067. Phonology and Speech Processingi ...108 to 1168. Isolated Word Recognition using Hybrid Neural Networks for Telugu Language ...120 to 1289. Source - Tract Interaction and its importance in Good Quality Speech Synthesis ...129 to 13810. Synthesis of the Speech of the hearing imparired Children ...141 to 14911. On the Use of Inforamtion Transmission analysis for intepreting the Results of Speech Perception experiments ...152 to 15712. Database of Acoustic Phonetic Features of Hindi Syllables ...159 to 17113. Formant Transition : A Cue for Fricative Consonant Identification ...174 to 18214. Relevance of Duration for speech system in Telugu ...185 to 20915. The Criteria for the Identification of tone Group Boundaries - A Computer - based study ...214 to 22516. Significance of Prosodic knowledge for speech to text Systems ...229 to 23917. Accent in Tamil : Speech Research for Speech Technology ....246 25518. Vedic Songs : Technology without Machine ..257 - 26519. Current Research, Future Trends and Applications of Speech Technology in India ...266 List of Participants ...278Index ...282