Customer Review: I bought this book because I wanted a comprehensive introduction on the statistical approach to speech recognition. There is no doubt that this is an excellent book, that achieves this. If you are new to the field of speech recognition, be warned that this book isn't exactly the easiest to read,... more info
Customer Review: This book is simply the best for your bookcase if you are a voice dialogue designer. I would strongly recommend it to novice and expert alike, especially for those learning VoiceXML for the first time, or working with it day to day.
Grounded in hours of human-computer experiments, and a... more info
Customer Review: For studying the speech recognition subject this is not the right book to buy, It is hard to understand the theory using this book.
The c++ code works but there should be more remarks to make it easier to the readers to get along.
There is a free toolkit to download from the Internet... more info
Customer Review: The only problem I have with this book is that a bit verbose. I also wish that it would get a bit more into the mathematics of HHMs and provide better examples. Hopefully the new Edition, has taken care of this short coming.
Customer Review: Book is very straight forward and concise on the programming side of using speech server. If that's all your looking for then an excellent book. However it's missing how to setup and integrate speech server into a telephony environment. Which there are books on using Office Communications... more info
Customer Review: As cellphones become ever more popular, and computational costs continue to fall, the prospect of ASR over wireless networks is attractive. So too is the use of ASR over the Internet (VoIP). The book describes the current state of understanding of both these ideas. A common configuration is for... more info