Innovative speech processing for mobile terminals: an annotated bibliography

Abstract This paper gives an overview of recent bibliographic references dealing with speech processing in mobile terminals. Its purpose is to point out state of the art issues in the area; thus a fairly large list of references taken from many conferences proceedings and journals is given and commented. General considerations about speech processing in mobile communications are firstly introduced; then we deal with audio processing for speech enhancement in mobile terminals and with low bit-rate speech coding. Speech recognition is addressed with some accent put on mobile applications. A short overview of implementation aspects of speech processing algorithms in mobile terminals is also given. Finally, open issues and problems are listed.

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