Manuscript due: Nov. 1, 2013  Journal: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Description: This special issue originates from a special session at the international conference Interspeech, which was held in September 2010 at Chiba, Japan. It will publish some key contributions presented at the conference describing different aspects of models of speech, from the analyisis or representation point of view. Topics of interest include: * Hidden Markov Models * Kernel Methods * Deep Neural Networks * Linear Predicitve Analysis Lead Guest Editor: * Hansjörg Mixdorff, Beuth University, Berlin, Germany Guest Editor: * Hideki Kawahara, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan For more information about this special issue, please visit: http://si.eurasip.org/issues/14/models-of-speech-in-search-of-better/