Holmes & Holmes – Chapter 9 – Stochastic Modelling

May be helpful as a complement to the essential readings.

Jurafsky & Martin – Section 9.6 – Search and Decoding

Important material on efficiently computing the combined likelihood of the acoustic model multiplied by the probability of the language model.

Young et al: Token Passing

My favourite way of understanding how the Viterbi algorithm is applied to HMMs. Can also be helpful in understanding search for unit selection speech synthesis.

Jurafsky & Martin – Section 9.5 – The lexicon and language model

Simply mentions the lexicon and language model and refers the reader to other chapters.