Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) is a new IETF protocol, providing a key enabling technology that facilitates integration of speech technologies into network equipment and accelerates their adoption resulting in exciting and interesting interactive services to be delivered by telephone. MRCP take advantage of IP telephony and Web technologies such as SIP, HTTP, and XML (Extensible Markup Language) to provide an open standard, vendor-independent, and versatile interface to speech engine. Speech Processing for IP Networks brings these technologies together into a single volume, giving readers a strong technical understanding of the principles of MRCP, how to use other protocols and specifications for the operation, and how it is applied in modern telecommunication network-based IP. This text will be a valuable resource for technical managers, product managers, software developers, and technical marketing professionals working for network equipment manufacturers, vendors speech engine, and network operators.