Chapter 1
Basic Concepts
“Sorry, I don't know anything. We just thought it would be really cool to build this high-tech information kiosk.”
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo
This book is about speech interfaces. For this first chapter we will focus on what an interface is, types of interfaces, and what we mean by a speech interface. At the end of this chapter, we describe the individual parts (sections) and chapters of the book.
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