From 'Harmonic Telegraph' to Cellular Phones -- Challenges in Speech Coding Research -- Recent Speech Coding Technologies and Standards -- Ensemble Learning Approaches in Speech Recognition -- Dynamic and Deep Networks For Speech Modeling and Recognition -- Speech Based Emotion Recognition -- Speaker Diarization: Challenges and Emerging Research -- Maximum a posteriori spectral estimation with source log-spectral priors for multichannel speech enhancement -- Modulation Processing for Speech Enhancement.