The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech

by Roberto Pieraccini

Book Overview

An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016850
• ISBN13: 9780262016858
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher