This book brings together the latest research in one comprehensive volume that deals with issues related to speech processing on resource-constrained, wireless, and mobile devices, such as speech recognition in noisy environments, specialized hardware for speech recognition and synthesis, the use of context to enhance recognition, the emerging and new standards required for interoperability, speech applications on mobile devices, distributed processing between the client and the server, and the relevance of Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments for developing regions--an area of explosiv.