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The speech signal contains rich messages, and three main recognition fields from speech signal, which are of most interest and have been studied for several decades, are speech recognition, language recognition and speaker recognition. In this the focus is on speech recognition field. In our everyday lives there are many forms of communication, for instance: body language, textual language, pictorial language and speech, etc. However amongst those forms speech is always regarded as the most powerful form because of its rich dimensions character. Except for the speech text (words), the rich dimensions also refer as the gender, attitude, emotion, health situation and identity of a speaker. Such information is very important for an effective communication. From the signal processing point of view, speech can be characterized in terms of the signal carrying message information. The waveform could be one of the representations of speech, and this kind of signal has been most useful in practical applications.