The Voice in the Machine - Building Computers That Understand Speech: Building Computers that Understand Speech (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Pieraccini, Roberto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262016850 ISBN 13: 9780262016858

Verlag: MIT Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Stanley Kubricks 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 of our technology that we have not gotten much further than an automated voice that tells us to say or press 1? Or is there something fundamental in human language and speech that we do not yet understand deeply enough to be able to replicate in a computer? In The Voice in the Machine, Roberto Pieraccini examines six decades of work in science and technology to develop computers that can interact with humans using speech and the industry that has arisen around the quest for these technologies. He shows that although the computers today that understand speech may not have HALs capacity for conversation, they have capabilities that make them usable in many applications today and are on a fast track of improvement and innovation.

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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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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262016850
• ISBN 13: 9780262016858
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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