Michael F. McTear

Spoken Dialogue Technology (eBook, PDF)

Toward the Conversational User Interface

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Spoken Dialogue Technology presents an extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems. To establish a coherent view the author has analysed design with dialogue theory and technologies, marking it out from previous papers published in this subject area. The book allows students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments. This practical orientation is available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits. By acknowledging current and future research, McTear does not only discuss development environments in relation to VoiceXML. The book covers research in spoken dialogue systems, with an extensive coverage of the most relevant theoretical issues as well as a critical evaluation of current research prototypes. Supplementary materials, code, links to resources etc will enable readers to develop and test their own systems. In the past such materials have been difficult to track down, available only on a range of disparate web sites.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857294142
• Artikelnr.: 43999165

Autorenporträt

Michael F. McTear, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Who Should Read This Book?.- How This Book Is Organised.- I. Background to Spoken Dialogue Technology.- 1. Talking with Computers: Fact or Fiction?.- 2. Spoken Dialogue Applications: Research Directions and Commercial Deployment.- 3. Understanding Dialogue.- 4. Components of a Spoken Dialogue System - Speech Input and Output.- 5. Dialogue Management.- II. Developing Spoken Dialogue Applications.- 6. Dialogue Engineering: The Dialogue Systems Development Lifecycle.- 7. Developing a Spoken Dialogue System Using the CSLU Toolkit.- 8. Developing Multimodal Dialogue Systems Using the CSLU Toolkit.- 9. Developing a Directed Dialogue System Using VoiceXML.- 10. More Advanced VoiceXML.- 11. Multimodal Web-based Dialogue: XHTML + Voice and SALT.- III. Advanced Applications.- 12. Advanced Dialogue Systems: Some Cases Studies.- 13. Research Topics in Spoken Dialogue Technology.- 14. Future Directions: The Way Ahead.- Appendixes.- Appendix 1. Grammar Formats.- The XML and ABNF Grammar Formats.- Appendix 2. The CSLU Toolkit and Related Software for.- Chapters 7 and 8.- CSLU Toolkit.- TclODBC.- Setting Up a Data Source (ODBC).- Appendix 3. Software for Chapters 9 and 10.- Downloading the IBM WebSphere VoiceServer SDK.- Downloading and Installing Apache Tomcat.- Java Server Pages (JSP).- Appendix 4. Software for Chapter 11. IBM Multimodal Tools and Microsoft.NET Speech SDK.- IBM Multimodal Tools.- Microsoft .NET Speech SDK.- Appendix 5. Spoken Dialogue Technology: Projects and Links.- Appendix 6. Spoken Dialogue Technology: Toolkits and Resources Toolkits and Resources for Spoken Dialogue Technology.- Web Sites for Hosted VoiceXML Applications.- References.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"McTear's book provides both a very recommendable entry point for novices or students who want to become familiar with spoken dialogue systems and a good reference manual for practitioners and researchers. The book is attractively presented and structured in a well-thought-out way. It is clearly written and easily understandable. The large number of examples given in the text introduce some variety to the topics." (Johannes Pittermann, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 31 (3), 2005)