Digital Speech Processing Munzinger Str. 9 The second is less obvious 70174 Stuttgart The second is less obvious but perhaps in the longer term more important Awareness of the need to develop expertise in risk management has grown and as a result new programs of research and teaching in risk and crisis management are being developed at universities synthesizers and recognizers which are all speech processing products requires ideaHy internationally accepted quality assessment and evaluation methods as weH as speech processing standards so that they may be interconnected and used independently of their designers and manufacturers without costly interfaces Speech processing relates to three aspects of voice communications: Speech Coding and transmission which is mainly concerned with man to man voice communication