Rapid globalization requires speech recognition systems to handle not only speech spoken by native speakers, but also speech spoken by foreign speakers. Current

Speech recognition technology is being increasingly employed in human-machine interfaces. A remaining problem however is the robustness of this technology to no

Current speech recognition systems are based on speaker independent speech models and suffer from inter-speaker variations in speech signal characteristics. Thi

Research in the field of automatic speech and speaker recognition has made a number of significant advances in the last two decades, influenced by advances in s

In the last decade, further applications of speech processing were developed, such as speaker recognition, human-machine interaction, non-English speech recogni