Section 1: Automatic speech recognition: Background -- Feature extraction: basic frontend -- Acoustic model: Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model -- Language model: stochastic N-gram -- Historical reviews of speech recognition research: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5th, and 4th generations -- Section 2: Advanced feature extraction and transformation -- Unsupervised feature extraction -- Discriminative feature transformation -- Section 3: Advanced acoustic modeling -- Conditional random field (CRF) and hidden conditional random field (HCRF) -- Deep-Structured CRF -- Semi-Markov conditional random field -- Deep stacking models -- Deep neural network – hidden Markov hybrid model -- Section 4: Advanced language modeling -- Discriminative Language model -- Log-linear language model -- Neural network language model.