This paper gives an overview of recent bibliographic references dealing wit
h speech processing in mobile terminals. Its purpose is to point out state
of the art issues in the area; thus a fairly large list of references taken
from many conferences proceedings and journals is given and commented. Gen
eral considerations about speech processing in mobile communications are fi
rstly introduced; then we deal with audio processing for speech enhancement
in mobile terminals and with low bit-rate speech coding. Speech recognitio
n is addressed with some accent put on mobile applications. A short overvie
w of implementation aspects of speech processing algorithms in mobile termi
nals is also given. Finally, open issues and problems are listed. (C) 2000
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