Dissimilarity Measures for Hidden Markov Models and Their Application in Multilingual Speech Recognition

I wish to thank Dr. Tech. Petri Salmela for advice and persistent guidance throughout the writing process. I am also grateful for Professor Jukka Saarinen, Professor Jaakko Astola and Lic. Tech. Janne Suontausta for advice and contructive criticism. I express my gratitude to all the members of the multilingual speech recognition project both at the Institute of Signal Processing and at the Institute of Digital and Computer Systems. Furthermore, thanks goes to all the colleague researchers in the Audio Research Group. It has been a pleasure working with you all