The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech


The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech (2012) .. by Roberto Pieraccini @RobertoPieracc


Front Matter … Page(s): i – xxviii

Humanspeak … Page(s): 1 – 45

The Speech Pioneers … Page(s): 47 – 81

Artificial Intelligence versus Brute Force … Page(s): 83 – 107

The Power of Statistics … Page(s): 109 – 133

There Is No Data like More Data … Page(s): 135 – 166

Let’s Have a Dialog … Page(s): 167 – 190

An Interlude at the Other End of the Chain … Page(s): 191 – 205

Becoming Real … Page(s): 207 – 233

The Business of Speech … Page(s): 235 – 261

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be … Page(s): 263 – 283

Epilogue: Siri … What’s the Meaning of Life? … Page(s): 285 – 287

Notes … Page(s): 289 – 317

Index … Page(s): 319 – 325