For our September 2013 issue, we return to the topic of Speech Processing. We had last covered recent patents in the area of Speech Processing in September 2011. Below, we consider several recent inventions comprising fundamental techniques for speech recognition as well as emerging applications of speech recognition. Number:  8,515,767 Title:  Technique for encoding/decoding of codebook indices for quantized MDCT spectrum in scalable speech and audio codecs Inventors: Y. Reznik Issued: August 20, 2013 Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA) Number:  8,515,756 Title: Age determination using speech Inventors: K. Witzman Issued: August 20, 2013 Assignee:  Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) Number:  8,510,412 Title:  Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects Inventors: J. Kroeker and O. Boulanov Issued: August 13, 2013 Assignee: Eliza Corporation (Beverly, MA) Number: 8,504,362 Title: Noise reduction for speech recognition in a moving vehicle Inventors: S. J. Lee at al. Issued: August 6, 2013 Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, Korea) Number:  8,484,024 Title:  Phonetic features for speech recognition Inventors: D. Kanevsky, D. Nahamoo, B. Ramabhadran, and T. Sainath. Issued: July 9, 2013 Assignee:  Nuance Communications, Inc. (Burlington, MA) Number: 8,484,023 Title:  Sparse representation features for speech recognition Inventors: D. Kanevsky, D. Nahamoo, B. Ramabhadran, and T. Sainath. Issued:July 9, 2013 Assignee:  Nuance Communications, Inc. (Burlington, MA) Number:  8,478,593 Title:  Enhanced accuracy for speech recognition grammars Inventors: H. Blanchard, S. Lewis, S. Sivaprasad, L. Zhang Issued:July 2, 2013 Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. (Atlanta, GA) Number: 8,442,833 Title: Speech processing with source location estimation using signals from two or more microphones Inventors: R. Chen Issued: May 14, 2013 Assignee:  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) Number: 8,392,194 Title: System and method for machine-based determination of speech intelligibility in an aircraft during flight operations Inventors: N. Agarwal Issued:March 5, 2013 Assignee:  The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL) Number: 8,428,940 Title: Metadata-based weighting of geotagged environmental audio for enhanced speech recognition accuracy Inventors: T. Kristjansson, M. Lloyd Issued: April 23, 2013 Assignee: Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA) If you have an interesting patent to share when we next feature patents related to speech processing, or if you are especially interested in a signal processing research field that you would want to be highlighted in this section, please send email to Shantanu Rane (rane AT merl DOT com).