The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart DevicesThis 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 II covers the various technologies that are required to build a conversational interface along with practical chapters and exercises using open source tools. Part III looks at interactions with smart devices, wearables, and robots, and discusses the role of emotion and personality in the conversational interface. Part IV examines methods for evaluating conversational interfaces and discusses future directions. |
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Contents
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3 Toward a Technology of Conversation | 25 |
Past and Present | 51 |
Part II
Developing a SpeechBased Conversational Interface | 73 |
5 Speech Input and Output | 74 |
6 Implementing Speech Input and Output | 93 |
11 Implementing Dialog Management | 234 |
12 Response Generation | 265 |
Part III
Conversational Interfaces and Devices | 280 |
Devices Wearables Virtual Agents and Robots | 283 |
14 Emotion Affect and Personality | 309 |
15 Affective Conversational Interfaces | 328 |
16 Implementing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Using Android Wear | 359 |
Part IV
Evaluation and Future Directions | 377 |
Other editions - View all
The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices Michael McTear,Zoraida Callejas,David Griol No preview available - 2018 |
The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices Michael McTear,Zoraida Callejas,David Griol Barres No preview available - 2016 |
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