Gunnar's favourite references about Automatic Speech Recognition

Pattern Classification

• New edition of a classic: Pattern Classification Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart and David G. Stork
• Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition by Keinosuke Fukunaga

Speech Recognition

• If you speak German try the excellent and very comprehensive book by Ernst Günter Schukat-Talamazzini Automatische Spracherkennung -- Grundlagen, statistische Modelle und effiziente Algorithmen
• A new book by the folks at Microsoft Research titled Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, written by X. Huang, A. Acero and H. Hon.
• Kai-Fu Lee's fantastic overview of the developement of a speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system:Automatic Speech Recognition -- The Development of the SPHINX Recognition System
• (relatively) new: Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition by Frederick Jelinek
• A book based on an ELSNET summer school Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing edited by Steve Young and Gerrit Bloothooft