Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (Hardcover)

This book provides a cross-disciplinary reference to speech in mobile and pervasive environments

Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments  addresses the issues related to speech processing on resource-constrained mobile devices. These include speech recognition in noisy environments, specialised hardware for speech recognition and synthesis, the use of context to enhance recognition and user experience, and the emerging software standards required for interoperability.  This book takes a multi-disciplinary look at these matters, while offering an insight into the opportunities and challenges of speech processing in mobile environs. In developing regions, speech-on-mobile is set to play a momentous role, socially and economically; the authors discuss how voice-based solutions and applications offer a compelling and natural solution in this setting.

Key Features

• Provides a holistic overview of all speech technology related topics in the context of mobility
• Brings together the latest research in a logically connected way in a single volume
• Covers hardware, embedded recognition and synthesis, distributed speech recognition, software technologies, contextual interfaces
• Discusses multimodal dialogue systems and their evaluation
• Introduces speech in mobile and pervasive environments for developing regions

This book provides a comprehensive overview for beginners and experts alike. It can be used as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in electrical engineering and computer science. Students, practitioners or researchers in the areas of mobile computing, speech processing, voice applications, human-computer interfaces, and information and communication technologies will also find this reference insightful. For experts in the above domains, this book complements their strengths. In addition, the book will serve as a guide to practitioners working in telecom-related industries.

本書提供了一個跨學科的參考，關於在移動和普遍環境中的語音處理。《移動和普遍環境中的語音》探討了在資源有限的移動設備上進行語音處理的相關問題。這些問題包括在嘈雜環境中的語音識別、專用於語音識別和合成的硬體、利用上下文來增強識別和使用者體驗，以及為實現互操作性所需的新興軟體標準。本書從多學科的角度探討了這些問題，同時深入瞭解了移動環境中語音處理的機遇和挑戰。在發展中地區，語音在移動設備上的應用將在社會和經濟上發揮重要作用；作者們討論了語音解決方案和應用在這種情境下提供了一個引人入勝且自然的解決方案。

主要特點：
- 在移動環境中提供了所有與語音技術相關的主題的整體概述
- 將最新的研究以邏輯連貫的方式集結在一本書中
- 包括硬體、嵌入式識別和合成、分散式語音識別、軟體技術、上下文界面等內容
- 討論多模態對話系統及其評估
- 介紹了發展中地區的移動和普遍環境中的語音

本書為初學者和專家提供了全面的概述。它可以作為電機工程和計算機科學高年級本科生和研究生的教科書使用。在移動計算、語音處理、語音應用、人機界面以及信息和通信技術領域的學生、從業人員或研究人員也會發現這本參考書具有深入的見解。對於上述領域的專家來說，本書可以補充他們的專業知識。此外，本書還將成為從事電信相關行業的從業人員的指南。