Spoken Dialogue Technology: Toward the Conversational User Interface

ISBN-13: 9781852336721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 432 str.

Michael F. McTear

Opis

Presents a coverage of spoken dialogue systems. This book allows students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments. It covers research in spoken dialogue systems, covering relevant theoretical issues as well as a critical evaluation of research prototypes.

Recenzje

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)

Spis treści

What is a Spoken Dialogue System?-. The Components of a Spoken Dialogue System-. Describing Dialogue-. Developing a Spoken Dialogue System: The Dialogue Engineering Lifecycle-. Directed Dialogue Systems-. Developing Directed Dialogue Systems using the CSLU Toolkit-. Developing Directed Dialogue Systems using VoiceXML-. Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems-. Developing Mixed - Initiative Dialogue Systems using VoiceXML-. Developing Mixed - Initiative Dialogue Systems using the CU Communicator System-. Conversational Agents-. Future Developments