The TDNN was firstintroduced proposedin the late 1980s and applied to classifya task of [[phonemesphoneme]] in speech signalsclassification for automatic [[speech recognition]], in speech signals where the automatic determination of precise segments or feature boundaries iswas difficult or impossible. Because the TDNN recognizes phonemes and their underlying acoustic/phonetic features, independent of position in time, it improved performance over static classification.<ref name="phoneme detection" /><ref name=":0">Alexander Waibel, ''[http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~engel/data/media/file/cmp121/waibel89_TDNN.pdf Phoneme Recognition Using Time-Delay Neural Networks]'', SP87-100, Meeting of the Institute of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), December, 1987,Tokyo, Japan.</ref> It was also applied to two-dimensional signals (time-frequency patterns in speech,<ref name=":1">John B. Hampshire and Alexander Waibel, ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/213-connectionist-architectures-for-multi-speaker-phoneme-recognition.pdf Connectionist Architectures for Multi-Speaker Phoneme Recognition]'', Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1990, Morgan Kaufmann.</ref> and coordinate space pattern in OCR<ref name=":2">Stefan Jaeger, Stefan Manke, Juergen Reichert, Alexander Waibel, ''[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan_Jaeger/publication/220163530_Online_handwriting_recognition_the_NPen_recognizer_Int_J_Doc_Anal_Recognit_3169-180/links/0c96051af3e6133ed0000000.pdf Online handwriting recognition: the NPen++recognizer]'', International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Vol. 3, Issue 3, March 2001</ref>).
