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Dragon NaturallySpeaking For Dummies
Wiley 2013; US$ 29.99Learn 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... more...
The Complete Guide to Game Audio
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95This comprehensive guide gives readers with basic music compositional skills the information they need to become commercially viable artisans. In addition to providing a foundation of prerequisite technical skills, including basic audio considerations and sound file formats, the book teaches the business skills needed to work successfully as an audio... more...
Audio Engineering 101
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95Audio Engineering 101 is a real world guide for starting out in the recording industry. If you have the dream, the ideas, the music and the creativity but don't know where to start, then this book is for you! Filled with practical advice on how to navigate the recording world, from an author with first-hand, real-life experience, Audio Engineering... more...
Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing
Wiley 2013; US$ 124.95Provides an insightful and practical introduction to crowdsourcing as a means of rapidly processing speech data Intended for those who want to get started in the domain and learn how to set up a task, what interfaces are available, how to assess the work, etc. as well as for those who already have used crowdsourcing and want to create better... more...
Emotion Recognition using Speech Features
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99Emotion Recognition Using Speech Features provides coverage of emotion-specific features present in speech. The author also discusses suitable models for capturing emotion-specific information for distinguishing different emotions. The content of this book is important for designing and developing natural and sophisticated speech... more...
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Speech Processing
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This thesis discusses the privacy issues in speech-based applications such as biometric authentication, surveillance, and external speech processing services. Author Manas A. Pathak presents solutions for privacy-preserving speech processing applications such as speaker verification, speaker identification and speech recognition. The author also introduces... more...
Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems
Springer 2012; US$ 84.99Data driven methods have long been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis and have more recently been introduced for dialogue management, spoken language understanding, and Natural Language Generation. Machine learning is now present "end-to-end" in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS). However, these techniques... more...
Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
Wiley 2012; US$ 134.50Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result in degraded speech recordings and adversely affect the performance of speech recognition... more...
Programming with the Kinect? for Windows® Software Development Kit
Microsoft Press 2012; US$ 28.00Create rich experiences for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview with this pragmatic guide to the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). The author, a developer evangelist for Microsoft, walks you through Kinect sensor technology and the SDK?providing hands-on insights for how to add gesture and posture recognition to your... more...
Automatic Speech Signal Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment of Speech Disorders
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99"Automatic Speech Signal Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment of Speech Disorders" provides a survey of methods designed to aid clinicians in the diagnosis and monitoring of speech disorders such as dysarthria and dyspraxia, with an emphasis on the signal processing techniques, statistical validity of the results presented in the... more...









