... problem.1.2. Neural Networks Connectionism, or the study of artificial neural networks, was initially inspired by neuro-biology, but it has since become a very interdisciplinary field, spanning computer ... constraints, speaker-dependent speaking rates, etc.1.2. Neural Networks 5now being focused on the general properties of neural computation, using simplified neural models. These properties include:• ... motivatedresearch in automatic speech recognition since the 1950’s. Great progress has been made sofar, especially since the 1970’s, using a series of engineered approaches that include tem-plate matching,...