For speech recognition, a few very foundational textbooks are: * Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning and Schuetze [0] * Statisti

For speech recognition, a few very foundational textbooks are: * Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning and Schuetze [0] * Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition by Jelinek [1] * Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development by Huang, Acero and Hon [2] In particular, Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition is a book you could expect to see on the shelves of most people in the field. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Language-Processing-ebook/dp/B007L7LUKO https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Langu... [1] https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Methods-Recognition-Language-Communication/dp/0262100665 https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Methods-Recognition-Langu... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Spoken-Language-Processing-Algorithm-Development/dp/0130226165 https://www.amazon.com/Spoken-Language-Processing-Algorithm-...