Declaration of Time-Dependence
HBR 180898


"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that speech is produced by an underlying dynamic system, that it is endowed by its production system with certain inherent dynamic qualities, among these are compactness, continuity, and the pursuit of target values for each phone class, that to exploit these characteristics Hidden Dynamic Models are instituted among men. We... solemnly publish and declare, that these phone classes are and of aright ought to be free and context independent states... And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the acoustic theory of speech production, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."
    Taken from the Declaration of Time-dependence, 1998.