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: As its lengthy subtitle suggests, this is a big book (just under a thousand pages) and unbelievably comprehensive. On the whole, the book is a major improvement over its predecessor. The first edition was plagued with typos on seemingly every page, and was also way too thin in certain places. I seem... 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: This book was good to figure out what speech server is and how to develop simple applications. I would have liked to see a bit more of a deep dive in the Worfklow Foundation interaction. There are some gotchas with respect to how you manage state accross different users that should have been covered... more info
Customer Review: This book disappointed me a little. I expected full algorithms descriptions and derivations of most important formulas. Neither is present. Descriptions are very superficial and practically imposible is to implement algorithms directly "from book". So the book is useless for engineers and... more info
Customer Review: Though, at times, it shows that the author is German (I mean, in the construction of statements), and the use of commas is a bit slack, I'm very impressed by the clarity (and also, by the practicality) of the exposition. I have not finished the book yet, but nearing the first half of it, almost... 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
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