Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management
component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog
systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These
systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they
integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural
language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis.
Due to the conjunction of several factors throughout the past few years,
humans are significantly changing their behavior vis-à-vis machines. In
particular, the use of speech technologies will become normal in the
professional domain, and in everyday life. The performance of speech
recognition components has also significantly improved. This book
includes various examples that illustrate the different functionalities
of the dialog model in a representative application for train travel
information retrieval (train time tables, prices and ticket
reservation).
Speech and Human-Machine Dialog is designed for a professional
audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This
book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in
computer science and engineering.