I don't see it was discussed somewhere btw, it would be nice to have a recommended reading page/thread. It would be nice to have a few documents that can get newbie into speech technology quickly. For a start I suggest to use David Gelbart's collection:

  http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~gelbart/edu.html

But the question is a bit different, what resources do you use to track recent news in speech technologies? Probably some feed or blog is a good place to read.  Something like

  http://www.speechtechblog.com

 for example

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Hi nsh,

I just use Google alerts using the following keywords:

• "speech recognition"
• sphinx cmu
• htk
• "acoustic model"
• "speech corpus"
• "speech corpora"
• julius speech recognition
• voxforge

Ken 

--- (Edited on 3/25/2008 11:07 am [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---