9780262542555: AI Assistants
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ISBN 10 : 0262542552 ISBN 13 : 9780262542555
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2021

Synopsis

An accessible explanation of the technologies that enable such popular voice-interactive applications as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant.

Have you talked to a machine lately? Asked Alexa to play a song, asked Siri to call a friend, asked Google Assistant to make a shopping list? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a nontechnical and accessible explanation of the technologies that enable these popular devices. Roberto Pieraccini, drawing on more than thirty years of experience at companies including Bell Labs, IBM, and Google, describes the developments in such fields as artificial intelligence, machine learning, speech recognition, and natural language understanding that allow us to outsource tasks to our ubiquitous virtual assistants.
Pieraccini describes the software components that enable spoken communication between humans and computers, and explains why it's so difficult to build machines that understand humans. He explains speech recognition technology; problems in extracting meaning from utterances in order to execute a request; language and speech generation; the dialog manager module; and interactions with social assistants and robots. Finally, he considers the next big challenge in the development of virtual assistants: building in more intelligence--enabling them to do more than communicate in natural language and endowing them with the capacity to know us better, predict our needs more accurately, and perform complex tasks with ease.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roberto Pieraccini, an expert in spoken human–machine–interaction, is Director of Engineering at Google. He is the author of The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262542552
ISBN 13 
9780262542555
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
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