1. Editorial

   • Daryle Gardner-Bonneau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 8

2. Commercial Speech Recognition Technology in the Military Domain: Results of Two Recent Research Efforts

   • David T. Williamson
   • Mark H. Draper
   • Timothy P. Barry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 16

3. Are You Listening to Your Spanish Speakers? How Spanish Speakers in the U.S. Say U.S. Addresses

   • Lizanne Kaiser
   • Sondra Ahlén

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 31

4. An Automatic System for Detecting Prosodic Prominence in American English Continuous Speech

   • F. Tamburini
   • C. Caini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 44

5. Knowledge-Combining Methodology for Dialogue Design in Spoken Language Systems

   • Rubén San-Segundo
   • Juan M. Montero
   • José M. Pardo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 66

6. Extraction of Speaker Features from Different Stages of DSR Front-Ends for Distributed Speaker Verification

   • Man-Wai Mak
   • Chin-Hung Sit
   • Sun-Yuan Kung

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 77

7. Car Speech Enhancement Using a Microphone Array

   • Jen-Tzung Chien
   • Po-Yin Lai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 91

8. Enhancing the Performance of Gaussian Mixture Model-Based Text Independent Speaker Identification

   • M.A. El-Gamal
   • M.F. Abu El-Yazeed
   • M.M.H. El Ayadi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 103

9. “The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice”

   • Judith Markowitz

   Book review Pages: 105 - 107