Spoken Dialogue With Computers (Signal Processing and its Applications)

Spoken Dialogues With Computers Gives A Complete State-of-the-art Description Of All The Components Of A Computer-based Spoken Dialogue System. Experts Review The Complete Chain In Detail, From Microphone To Speech Synthesis. The Book Will Be Invaluable To Researchers In Industry And Academia Working On Speech Communication Systems And For Application Developers In Industry. Problems And Methods For Solution / Renato De Mori -- Acoustic Transduction / Maurizio Omologo, Piergiorgio Svazier And Renato De Mori -- Basic Speech Sounds, Their Analysis And Features / Bianca Angelini [and Others] -- Parameter Transformation / Diego Giuliani, Daniele Falavigna And Renato De Mori -- Acoustic Modelling / Fabio Brugnara And Renato De Mori -- Training Of Acoustic Models / Fabio Brugnara And Renato De Mori -- Language Modelling / Marcello Federico And Renato De Mori -- Knowledge Integration ; Search And Generation Of Word Hypotheses / Mauro Cettolo, Roberto Gretter And Renato De Mori -- Neural Networks For Speech Recognition / Edmondo Trentin [and Others] -- Speaker Adaptation / Diego Giuliani And Renato De Mori -- Robust Speech Recognition / Chafic Mokbel [and Others] -- On The Use Of Formal Grammars / Anna Corazza And Renato De Mori -- Sentence Interpretation / Roland Kuhn And Renato De Mori -- Dialogue Systems / David Sadek And Renato De Mori -- Sentence Generations / Christel Sorin And Renato De Mori -- System Architectures And Application / Giuliano Antoniol [and Others] -- Appendix A : Signal Processing / Daniele Falavigna [and Others] -- Appendix B : Classification Trees / Roland Kuhn And Renato De Mori -- Appendix C : Speech Corpora / Renato De Mori And Roland Kuhn -- Appendix D : Formal Equations Of Agent Behaviour / Giuliano Antoniol, Roberto Fiutem And Renato De Mori. Edited By Renato De Mori. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [633]-696) And Index.