The Voice in the Machine
Building Computers That Understand Speech
$70.85
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
23 March 2012
Summary
An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language.Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001- A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and understand speech as HAL did. Is it a failure…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533294 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262533294 |
| Author: | Roberto Pieraccini, Lawrence Rabiner |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 23 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The Voice in the Machine |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
This is a fascinating tour of the development of modern speech technologies and applications…A wonderful historical account of the growth of speech technology.
This is a fascinating tour of the development of modern speech technologies and applications…A wonderful historical account of the growth of speech technology.
* Choice *About The Author
Roberto Pieraccini
Roberto Pieraccini, Director of ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, has been active for more than thirty years in speech research and technology.
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