Skip to Content
Voice User Interface Design
book

Voice User Interface Design

by Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola, Jennifer Balogh
February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 32m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Voice User Interface Design

Chapter 2. Overview of Spoken Language Technology

To make effective design decisions, you need to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities of the underlying technology. This chapter introduces speech technology at the level of understanding required by VUI designers and discusses how this understanding should come into play when you make design decisions.

Even though speech recognition technology is only now becoming commonplace, it has been with us for almost a century. The first success story was actually a children's toy, produced around 1911, called Radio Rex (pictured on the book cover). This toy was a small celluloid dog sitting in a tin-roofed doghouse. Inside the doghouse, an electromagnet held a spring-loaded lever. There ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Voice User Interface Projects

Voice User Interface Projects

Henry Lee
Designing Effective Speech Interfaces

Designing Effective Speech Interfaces

Susan Weinschenk, Dean T. Barker

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0321185765Purchase book