Voice Communication With Computers: Conversational Systems
By Christopher Schmandt

New York, NY, February 1, 1994--A groundbreaking book from Van Nostrand
Reinhold explores how human language techniques can be used to allow
people to converse with "talking computers."

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Voice Communication With
Computers/Conversational Systems explains the application of speech
technologies to computer interfaces, aiming its discussion at everyone
from application and systems designers to human factors developers and any
professional interested in taking advantage of the ability to speak to a
computer.

"Unlike other books, this one explains speech recognition, coding and
synthesis in a way that can be understood by a broad audience," says
author Christopher Schmandt, Principal Research Scientist at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory. "Furthermore, it
provides practical guidance in how to use speech technologies."

Chapters progress from physiological and psychological components of
speech, language and hearing, to technical principles of speech synthesis
and voice recognition, and user interaction techniques.

Among the topics covered are software architectures that support voice in
multimedia computer environments, the operations of digital recording,
speech synthesis and speech recognition, and the integration of telephones
into computer workstations.

To make the book as practical as possible, Schmandt uses case studies that
demonstrate, for example, how to program a computer so it can understand
human speech, as well as how to integrate speech into the development of
user interfaces, applications, and other areas of computer-related work.

Christopher Schmandt is Director of the Speech Research Group and a
Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media Laboratory.

Since its founding in 1848, Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR) has pioneered the
publication of high-quality engineering, technical and scientific
reference books. VNR's computer book group, founded in 1978, publishes an
extensive list of timely, high-level technical books for computer
professionals and business executives in any industry. The books are
written by industry authorities in each subject area and are often
published in cooperation with leading hardware and software vendors. All
VNR tides can be purchased through the Van Nostrand Reinhold Bookstore
Cafe, the newest online shopping service on CompuServe's Electronic Mall,
as well as through major book chains, independent book stores, book
distributors and college bookstores.

Voice Communication With Computers/Conversational Systems
by Christopher Schmandt 
$39.95; paper, 314 pp., 120 illus. 
Publication Date: January, 1994 
ISBN: 0442-23935-1 

Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Company 
115 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10003
1-800-544-0550, 212-254-3232,  fax 212-475-2548

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