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Dragon NaturallySpeaking for dummies
Command your computer, surf the web, create reports, and more-- with your voice! Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a speech recognition program that lets users dictate into any Windows application, allowing you to access documents, write e-mails, and even update Facebook using only your voice.
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Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing
The concept of crowdsourcing is based on the observation that if a crowd of non-experts is asked an opinion, the aggregation of their individual opinions will be very close to the true value. Tasks such as collecting speech, labelling it, assessing systems and carrying out studies on the speech data are natural candidates for crowdsourcing. This book is a detailed and hands-on comprehensive reference for those who want to use crowdsourcing for speech applications. From the reader who has already used crowdsourcing and wants to refine their methods to the novice who has never used this technique before; this book will provide a practical introduction to crowdsourcing as a means of rapidly processing speech data with contributions from leading researchers in the field. Informs readers about how to collect and label speech using crowdsourcing; how to assess speech applications and run perception studies using crowdsourcing. Explains to readers about how to choose crowdsourcing platforms. Considers the ethical and legal implications of performing crowdsourcing for speech processing. Includes numerous real-life examples of how to implement crowdsourcing for various types of speech processing. Offers several options for each type of task enabling readers to choose which option best fits their individual needs. Provides an extensive overview of the literature on crowdsourcing for speech processing.
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Dummies
Learn to speak Dragon with For Dummies! Fully updated for the latest speech recognition tools and features, this bestselling guide helps you conquer Dragon NaturallySpeaking and gets you started creating documents, sending e-mail, searching the web, and more using only your voice. You?ll learn Dragon basics like dictation, formatting, and proofreading before moving on to more advanced options including posting to social media sites, developing custom commands, troubleshooting, and improving communication with Dragon. Explains the ins and outs of voice-recognition software and the wealth of possibilities available in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Discusses how Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows you to interact with and command you PC, cruise through e-mail, update Facebook, surf the web, and create reports just by speaking Shows you how to increase your productivity at work and stay organized on the go with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Reveals time-saving tips, mistakes to avoid, and the most common issues you may encounter when getting started with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Stop \"dragon\" your feet and get started with Dragon Naturally Speaking For Dummies, 3rd Edition today!.
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Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they may need to identify words on the basis of sounds that are difficult to differentiate. This book brings together psycholinguistic research that addresses these topics and highlights how the study of spoken word processing can shed light on fundamental dynamics of language processing. It demonstrates how spoken word processing is affected by the specific characteristics of individual languages and their writing systems and how it grows and changes across the lifespan. The book offers new cutting-edge research on spoken word processing. It will benefit researchers and students interested in language processing as well as readers who wish to broaden their understanding of language in the mind. In particular, this book underlines the value of conducting psycholinguistic research across languages and across the lifespan. Originally published in The Mental Lexicon Vol. 8:3 (2013).
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Voice applications for Alexa and Google Assistant / Dustin Coates ; foreword by Max Amordeluso
In 2018, an estimated 100 million voice-controlled devices were installed in homes worldwide, and the apps that control them, like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, are getting more powerful, with new skills being added every day. Great voice apps improve how users interact with the web, whether they're checking the weather, asking for sports scores, or playing a game. \"Voice applications for Alexa and Google Assistant\" is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. You'll learn to build applications that listen to users, store information, and rely on user context, as you create a voice-powered sleep tracker from scratch. With the basics mastered, you'll dig deeper into multiuse conversational flow and other more-advanced concepts. Smaller projects along the way reinforce your new techniques and best practices.
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Fundamentals of verbal and nonverbal communication and the biometric issue
The main theme of this publication is the fundamental features of verbal and nonverbal communication and their relationships with the identification of a person, his/her socio-cultural background and personal traits. The problem of understanding human behaviour in terms of personal traits, and the possibility of an algorithmic implementation that exploits personal traits to identify a person unambiguously, are among the great challenges of modern science and technology. On the one hand, there is the theoretical question of what makes each individual unique among all others that share similar traits, and what makes a culture unique among various cultures. On the other hand, there is the technological need to be able to protect people from individual disturbance and dangerous behaviour that could damage an entire community. As regards to the problem of understanding human behaviour, one of the most interesting research areas is that related to human interaction and face-to-face communication. It is in this context that knowledge is shared and personal traits acquire their significance.
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Robotics, Vision and Control : Fundamental Algorithms In MATLAB® Second, Completely Revised, Extended And Updated Edition
Robotic vision, the combination of robotics and computer vision, involves the application of computer algorithms to data acquired from sensors. The research community has developed a large body of such algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For over 20 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB® Toolboxes, one for robotics and one for vision. They provide implementations of many important algorithms and allow users to work with real problems, not just trivial examples. This book makes the fundamental algorithms of robotics, vision and control accessible to all. It weaves together theory, algorithms and examples in a narrative that covers robotics and computer vision separately and together. Using the latest versions of the Toolboxes the author shows how complex problems can be decomposed and solved using just a few simple lines of code. The topics covered are guided by real problems observed by the author over many years as a practitioner of both robotics and computer vision. It is written in an accessible but informative style, easy to read and absorb, and includes over 1000 MATLAB and Simulink® examples and over 400 figures. The book is a real walk through the fundamentals of mobile robots, arm robots. then camera models, image processing, feature extraction and multi-view geometry and finally bringing it all together with an extensive discussion of visual servo systems. This second edition is completely revised, updated and extended with coverage of Lie groups, matrix exponentials and twists; inertial navigation; differential drive robots; lattice planners; pose-graph SLAM and map making; restructured material on arm-robot kinematics and dynamics; series-elastic actuators and operational-space control; Lab color spaces; light field cameras; structured light, bundle adjustment and visual odometry; and photometric visual servoing. \"An authoritative book, reaching across fields, thoughtfully conceived and brilliantly accomplished!\" OUSSAMA KHATIB, Stanford.
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Computational paralinguistics : emotion, affect and personality in speech and language processing
This book presents the methods, tools and techniques that are currently being used to recognise (automatically) the affect, emotion, personality and everything else beyond linguistics ('paralinguistics') expressed by or embedded in human speech and language.
It is the first book to provide such a systematic survey of paralinguistics in speech and language processing. The technology described has evolved mainly from automatic speech and speaker recognition and processing, but also takes into account recent developments within speech signal processing, machine intelligence and data mining.
Moreover, the book offers a hands-on approach by integrating actual data sets, software, and open-source utilities which will make the book invaluable as a teaching tool and similarly useful for those professionals already in the field.
Key features:
* Provides an integrated presentation of basic research (in phonetics/linguistics and humanities) with state-of-the-art engineering approaches for speech signal processing and machine intelligence.
* Explains the history and state of the art of all of the sub-fields which contribute to the topic of computational paralinguistics.
* C overs the signal processing and machine learning aspects of the actual computational modelling of emotion and personality and explains the detection process from corpus collection to feature extraction and from model testing to system integration.
* Details aspects of real-world system integration including distribution, weakly supervised learning and confidence measures.
* Outlines machine learning approaches including static, dynamic and context?sensitive algorithms for classification and regression.
* Includes a tutorial on freely available toolkits, such as the open-source 'openEAR' toolkit for emotion and affect recognition co-developed by one of the authors, and a listing of standard databases and feature sets used in the field to allow for immediate experimentation enabling the reader to build an emotion detection model on an existing corpus.
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