Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments / Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (ePub)

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.