1. Introduction

   • Dragos Burileanu

   Introduction Pages: 197 - 198

2. Revealing Translators' Knowledge: Statistical Methods in Constructing Practical Translation Lexicons for Language and Speech Processing

   • Dan Tufiş
   • Ana Maria Barbu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 209

3. Basic Research and Implementation Decisions for a Text-to-Speech Synthesis System in Romanian

   • Dragos Burileanu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 225

4. Improved Speech Synthesis Using Fuzzy Methods

   • Doina Jitca
   • Horia Nicolai Teodorescu
   • Florin Grigoras

   OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 235

5. Stressed Syllable Determination for Romanian Words within Speech Synthesis Applications

   • Eugeniu Oancea
   • Adriana Badulescu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 246

6. On Performance Improvement of a Speaker Verification System Using Vector Quantization, Cohorts and Hybrid Cohort-World Models

   • Corneliu Burileanu
   • Daniel Moraru
   • Alina Stan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 257

7. Statistical and Hybrid Methods for Speech Recognition in Romanian

   • Zica Valsan
   • Inge Gavat
   • Octavian Dumitru

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 268

8. Pitch Estimation by Block and Instantaneous Methods

   • Inge Gavat
   • Matei Zirra
   • Bogdan Sabac

   OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 279

9. On Rationally DSP Implementation of the MP-MLQ/ACELP Dual Rate Speech Encoder for Multimedia Communications

   • Cristian Negrescu
   • Dumitru Stanomir
   • Dragos Burileanu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 300