Swati Joharis Scientist ‘C’ at the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR),Delhi. She is involved in many major research projects from aninterdisciplinary perspective, including research on image and signalprocessing.  She has completed her M.Techfrom BITS, Pilani and her research work on gestures and speech recognition hasbeen published in reputed International Journals and proposed to be integratedwith the New Selection System being developed for the Indian Armed Forces.Emotion recognition and non-verbal behaviour are some of her areas of interestand she has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. She authoreda few book chapters dealing with human computer interaction and technologicalemergence, and has been an active member of Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IEEE) society for more than 3 years.

• Introduction.- Psychology of Voice.- Language, Communication and Human Behaviour.- Multimodality and Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Emotional Speech Recognition.- Where Speech Recognition is Going: Conclusion and Future Scope.