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The book discusses intelligent system design using soft computing and similar systems and their interdisciplinary applications. It also focuses on the recent trends to use soft computing as a versatile tool for designing a host of decision support systems.

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Part 1 (Background): Introduction.- Speech Processing Technology-Basic Consideration.- Fundamental Considerations of ANN.- Sounds of Assamese Language.- State of Research of Speech Recognition.- Part 2 (Design Aspects): Phoneme Segmentation Technique using Self Organizing Map (SOM).- Application of Proposed Phoneme Segmentation Technique in Spoken Word Recognition.- Application of Clustering Techniques to Generate A Priori Knowledge for Spoken Word Recognition.- Application of Proposed Phoneme Segmentation Technique in Speaker Identification.- Conclusion.

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Ms. Mousmita Sarma is currently working as Research Consultant at M/s. SpeecHWareNet Pvt. (I) Ltd., Technology Incubation Center, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India. She completed MSc in Electronics and Communication Technology from Gauhati University, India in 2010. She also completed M.Tech from the same institution in 2012 with specialization in Speech Processing and Recognition. She has co-authored one book and published several peer reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings and journals. She serves as reviewer to several journals and IEEE international and national conferences. Her areas of interest include Speech Recognition, soft-Computation and HCI Applications.

Dr. Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, currently Associate Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, has over seventeen years of professional experience. He has covered all areas of UG/PG level electronics courses including soft computing, mobile communication, digital signal and image processing. He obtained M.Tech degree in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2005 and subsequently completed PhD programme in the area of Soft-Computational Application in Mobile Communication. He has authored six books, several book chapters, around three hundred peer reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings and journals. His areas of interest are Soft-Computation and its Applications, Mobile Communication, Antenna Design, Speech Processing, Document Image Analysis and Signal Processing Applications in High Energy Physics, Neuro-computing and Computational Models for Social-Science Applications. He is senior member IEEE (USA), Fellow IETE (India), Member International Neural Network Society (INNS, USA), Life Member ISTE (India) and Life Member CSI (India). He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent System Design and Computing (IJISDC, UK), guest editor of several international journals, reviewer of over thirty international journals and over hundred international conferences.

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