In all of the examples so far, the language used has been English and the mode of interaction has been mainly speech. This chapter shows how to incorporate other languages into apps. The chapter also looks at how to build apps that make use of several modalities, for example, combining speech with visual displays.
Voice Application Development for Android
Voice Application Development for Android
Overview of this book
Speech technology has been around for some time now. However, it has only more recently captured the imagination of the general public with the advent of personal assistants on mobile devices that you can talk to in your own language. The potential of voice apps is huge as a novel and natural way to use mobile devices.
Voice Application Development for Android is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a series of clear, step-by-step examples which will help you to build on the basic technologies and create more advanced and more engaging applications. With this book, you will learn how to create useful voice apps that you can deploy on your own Android device in no time at all.
This book introduces you to the technologies behind voice application development in a clear and intuitive way. You will learn how to use open source software to develop apps that talk and that recognize your speech. Building on this, you will progress to developing more complex apps that can perform useful tasks, and you will learn how to develop a simple voice-based personal assistant that you can customize to suit your own needs.
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Voice Application Development for Android
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Speech on Android Devices
Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Speech Recognition
Simple Voice Interactions
Form-filling Dialogs
Grammars for Dialog
Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogs
Dialogs with Virtual Personal Assistants
Taking it Further
Afterword
Index
Customer Reviews