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Voice Application Development for Android

You're reading from  Voice Application Development for Android

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783285297
Pages 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Voice Application Development for Android
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Speech on Android Devices 2. Text-to-Speech Synthesis 3. Speech Recognition 4. Simple Voice Interactions 5. Form-filling Dialogs 6. Grammars for Dialog 7. Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogs 8. Dialogs with Virtual Personal Assistants 9. Taking it Further Afterword
Index

Developing a more advanced Virtual Personal Assistant


The system output, which uses TTS as presented in Chapter 2, Text-to-speech synthesis could be enhanced by including the use of different voices, languages, and modalities, for example, to present information that is less suitable for spoken output.

The user input techniques for speech recognition that were introduced in Chapter 3, Speech Recognition could be developed in various ways:

  • By including the similarity measures introduced in Chapter 4, Simple Voice Interactions to compare the recognized results with similar words that might have been what the user actually said

  • By making use of other techniques for enhancing the recognition results, such as stemming, as described in Chapter 17 of the book Professional Android Sensor Programming by Greg Milette and Adam Stroud

  • By incorporating confidence measures to support decisions on whether to use confirmations, as described in Chapter 4, Simple Voice Interactions

  • By making use of the n-best...

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