The six papers in this special section on large-scale optimization for Audio, Speech, and Language Processing are summarized here.

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The authors focus on a tutorial description of the hybrid HMM/ANN method. The approach has been applied to large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, and variants are in use by many researchers, ...