Features
- Overview of technology—Including voice identification, touch-tone recognition, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and dialog management.
- Human factors guidelines.
- Examples and exercises—Example of VoiceXML code to illustrate each major principle and exercises at the end of each chapter.
- Overview of dialog styles—Describes a variety of dialog styles and how to implement each using VoiceDXL.
- Supporting Web site—Contains example code, other Web site resources, list of course projects, lecture notes, chapter review questions, and answers to selected exercises for students. For instructors, exam questions and visuals for classroom presentations.
- Copyright 2003
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/4"
- Pages: 324
- Edition: 1st
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Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-009262-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-009262-5
Yes, this is the most suitable book that I know of as a college textbook on this topic. If I were teaching a class on this topic, I would definitely select it as my textbook.
--Deborah A. Dahl, Speech Solutions, Unisys Corporation
VoiceXML excels at introducing the process of developing speech-enabled applications. With advice including how to phrase a prompt, how to specify grammar for recognizing the caller's response to a prompt, and what to do if the caller does not respond appropriately, this text answers fundamental speech user-interface questions. Jim Larson's book is well suited as a college textbook for students and a trade book for professionals developing speech applications.
BENEFITS
- Gain skills required to develop speech applications
- Apply practical steps for developing user-friendly speech applications
- Learn basic strategies for interacting with a computer by talking and listening, rather than typing and reading
- Understand basic issues and apply pragmatic solutions for developing speech applications
FEATURES
- Summary of key concepts listed at the end of each chapter
- State-of-the-art review of key speech technologies
- Review of alternative dialog styles and how to implement them using VoiceXML
- Human-factors guidelines for constructing speech user interfaces with examples of their application
- Author website containing VoiceXML code for each example, review questions for each chapter, available VoiceXML interpreters, grammars, and VoiceXML Web sites at http://www.larson-tech.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. James A. Larson chairs the World Wide Web Consortium's Voice Browser Working Group, which is developing language standards for speech applications, including VoiceXML 2.0, Speech Recognition Grammar, and Speech Synthesis Markup Languages. Dr. Larson also works for Intel and is an adjunct professor for Portland State University and Oregon Health Sciences University/Oregon Graduate Institute where he teaches courses on speech application development. Author of many technical papers on user interfaces, Dr. Larson currently writes a column for Speech Technology Magazine and is a speech applications consultant for Larson Technical Services.
Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter ends with Key Concepts and Exercises and Projects.)
Introduction.
1. Why Develop Speech Applications for the Telephone?
2. How Speech Applications Work.
3. Technologies for Speech Applications.
4. Creating Speech Applications.
5. Introduction to VoiceXML.
6. Make the Computer Talk.
7. Make the Computer Listen.
8. Application-Directed Styles and Dialog Documents.
9. User-Directed Styles and Dialog Documents.
10. Mixed-Initiative Dialogs.
11. Testing - Tuning and Monitoring.
12. Development Tools and Reusability.
13. Multimedia Dialogs.
Appendix A: Ajax Fast Foods Case Study.
Appendix B: The W3C Speech Interface Framework.
References.
Glossary of Terms.
Index.