In accordance with the present invention, computer implemented methods and systems are provided for representing and modeling the temporal structure of audio signals. In response to receiving a signal, a time-to-frequency domain transformation on at least a portion of the received signal to generate...http://www.google.se/patents/US7672838?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7672838 - Systems and methods for speech recognition using frequency domain linear prediction polynomials to form temporal and spectral envelopes from frequency domain representations of signals