Research Catalog

Title

Spoken dialogue technology : toward the conversational user interface / Michael F. McTear ; foreword by T.V. Raman.

Author

McTear, Michael

Publication

London ; New York : Springer, c2004.

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Description

xii, 432 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems." "The book enables students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments and languages, including the CSLU toolkit, VoiceXML, SALT, and XHTML+voice. This practical orientation is usually available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits."--Jacket.

Subject

• Automatic speech recognition
• User interfaces (Computer systems)
• User-Computer Interface

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-424) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Talking with computers : fact or fiction? -- Spoken dialogue applications research directions and commercial deployment -- Understanding dialogue -- Components of a spoken dialogue system : speech input and output -- Dialogue management -- Dialogue engineering : the dialogue systems development lifecycle -- Developing a spoken dialogue system using the CSLU toolkit -- Developing multimodal dialogue systems using the CSLU toolkit -- Developing a directed dialogue system using VoiceXML -- More advanced VoiceXML -- Multimodal web-based dialogue : XHTML + Voice and SALT -- Advanced dialogue systems : some case studies -- Research topics in spoken dialogue technology -- Future directions : the way ahead.

ISBN

1852336722 (softcover: alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004045619

OCLC

54544073

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library