1. Memoriam Leon Lerman founder of AVIOS

   • Sam Viglione

   Announcement Pages: 87 - 87

2. Editorial

   • Howard C. Nusbaum

   EditorialNotes Pages: 89 - 90

3. Advances in human-interface engineering for reverse directory assistance (ACNA) services

   • Murray F. Spiegel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 101

4. Combining concatenation and formant synthesis for improved intelligibility and naturalness in text-to-speech systems

   • Steve Pearson
   • Frode Holm
   • Kazue Hata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 107

5. Pragmatic determinants of intonation contours for dialogue systems

   • Judy Delin
   • Ron Zacharski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 120

6. Software text-to-speech

   • William I. Hallahan
   • Anthony J. Vitale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 134

7. Continuous speech recognition and syntactic processing in Iranian Farsi language

   • M. Sheikhan
   • M. Tebyani
   • M. Lotfizad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 141

8. Speaker indexing using neural network clustering of vowel spectra

   • Deb K. Roy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 149

9. Development and application of an accurate and flexible automatic aligner

   • J. Vonwiller
   • C. Cleirigh
   • I. Rogers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 160

10. A field evaluation of the Italian “Automated reverse directory assistance” service

    • Cristina Delogu
    • Andrea Paoloni
    • Ciro Sementina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 169