Speech and Human-Machine Dialog

by Wolfgang Minker, Samir Bennacef

Overview

Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis.

Due to the conjunction of several factors throughout the past few years, humans are significantly changing their behavior vis-à-vis machines. In particular, the use of speech technologies will become normal in the professional domain, and in everyday life. The performance of speech recognition components has also significantly improved. This book includes various examples that illustrate the different functionalities of the dialog model in a representative application for train travel information retrieval (train time tables, prices and ticket reservation).

Speech and Human-Machine Dialog is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475788747
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	03/23/2013
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #770
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	93
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Robust Spoken Natural Language Understanding.- Spoken Language Dialog Modeling.- Conclusion.