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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael mctear”
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  • Transforming Conversational AI

    Exploring the Power of Large Language Models in Interactive Conversational Agents

    by Michael McTear, Marina Ashurkina ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Acquire the knowledge needed to work effectively in conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and understand the opportunities and threats it can potentially bring. This book will help you navigate from the traditional world of dialogue systems that revolve around hard coded scripts, to the world of large language models, prompt engineering, conversational AI platforms, multi-modality, and ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Conversational Interface

    Talking to Smart Devices

    by Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the conversational interface, which is becoming the main mode of interaction with virtual personal assistants, smart devices, various types of wearable, and social robots. The book consists of four parts. Part I presents the background to conversational interfaces, examining past and present work on spoken language interaction with computers. Part ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Voice Application Development for Android

    by Michael F. McTear, Zoraida Callejas ...
    This book will give beginners an introduction to building voice-based applications on Android. It will begin by covering the basic concepts and will build up to creating a voice-based personal assistant. By the end of this book, you should be in a position to create your own voice-based applications on Android from scratch in next to no time.Voice Application Development for Android is for all ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An end-to-end approach

    by Hamidreza Chinaei, Brahim Chaib-draa ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems. It presents POMDP as a formal framework to represent uncertainty explicitly while supporting automated policy solving. The authors propose and implement an end-to-end learning approach for dialogue POMDP model components. Starting from scratch, they present the state, the transition ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants

    Edited by G.G. Lee, H.K. Kim, M. Jeong, J.-H. Kim ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book covers state-of-the-art topics on the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems and intelligent assistants in everyday applications. It presents scientific achievements in language processing that result in the development of successful applications and addresses general issues regarding the advances in Spoken Dialog Systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Computational and Cognitive Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation

    by Oi Yee Kwong ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel.Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractness and draws on psycholinguistic data to examine the extent to which existing lexical resources ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech

    The Bias of Language and Paralanguage

    by Swati Johar ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores the various categories of speech variation and works to draw a line between linguistic and paralinguistic phenomenon of speech. Paralinguistic contrast is crucial to human speech but has proven to be one of the most difficult tasks in speech systems. In the quest for solutions to speech technology and sciences, this book narrows down the gap between speech technologists and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Speech and Language Processing for Human-Machine Communications

    Proceedings of CSI 2015

    Edited by S. S. Agrawal, Poonam Bansal, Ritika Wason, Amita Devi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India. Divided into 10 topical volumes, the proceedings present papers on state-of-the-art research, surveys, and succinct reviews. The volumes cover diverse topics ranging from communications networks to big data analytics, and from system architecture to cyber security. This volume focuses on Speech ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Web Services Testing with soapUI

    Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, this guide take you through a number of hands-on exercises and projects to get you familiar with soapUI. A sure way to raise the quality of your web services.

    by Charitha Kankanamge ...
    Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, this guide take you through a number of hands-on exercises and projects to get you familiar with soapUI. A sure way to raise the quality of your web services.Key FeaturesBecome more proficient in testing web services included in your service-oriented solutionsFind, analyze, reproduce bugs effectively by adhering to best web service testing ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Personality in Speech

    Assessment and Automatic Classification

    by Tim Polzehl ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience from research fields of psychology, linguistics, audio-processing, machine learning, and computer science. The work systematically explores a novel research topic devoted to automated modeling of personality expression from speech. For this aim, it introduces a novel personality assessment questionnaire and presents the results of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • iOS Programming: Starter Guide: What Every Programmer Needs to Know About iOS Programming

    by Jason Scotts ...
    What Every Programmers Need To Know About iOS Programming Exposed! iOS Programming: Starter Guide: What Every Programmer Needs to Know About iOS Programming is a precise and concise book for any programmmer to get a quick grasp of the intricacies of iOS and how to master it quickly. The book covers:- Chapter 1- What is iOS SDK? Chapter 2- How Do You Get Started With ios- C Programming? Chapter 3- ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

    by Johannes Pittermann, Angela Pittermann, Wolfgang Minker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion recognizer combining speech and emotion recognition, and multiple speech-emotion recognizers ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD