Ebook: Practical Spoken Dialog Systems
- Tags: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
- Series: Text Speech and Language Technology 26
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don’t go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What’s missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn’t yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications.
For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don’t go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What’s missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn’t yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications.
For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don’t go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What’s missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn’t yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Beyond Technology....Pages 7-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Ten Principles for Designing Human-Computer Dialog Systems....Pages 25-40
Voice User Interface Design for Novice and Experienced Users....Pages 41-63
Designing Error Recovery Dialogs....Pages 65-83
Visualization Tools for Designing....Pages 85-104
How to Wreck a Nice Speech Grammar....Pages 105-122
Designing for Speaker....Pages 123-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Using VoiceXML 2.0 in the VxOne Unified Messaging Application....Pages 143-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Building a Standards and Research Community with the Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure....Pages 167-196
Building Spoken-Language Collaborative Interface Agents....Pages 197-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-232