As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. Thi

Data driven methods have long been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis and have more recently been introduced for dial

Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery, geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educationa

This book covers state-of-the-art topics on the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems and intelligent assistants in everyday applications. It presen

Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that is often characterized as the study of automatically converting non-li