Download or read book Jason s Talking Computer written by Lilla Frith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Talking Computer written by Paresh P. Ajmera and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Talk to Your Computer written by Seymour Simon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read and find out about the basics of computer language in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book. Have you ever wondered how to get a computer to do something? First you need to speak in a way it can understand! Read and find out all about how to talk to your computer in this updated edition with new illustrations and simple engaging text that introduces conditions, loops, and functions. How to Talk to Your Computer comes packed with visual aids like charts, sidebars, an infographic, and a computer-less coding activity. This updated 2019 edition was vetted by Dr. Justin Solomon, Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are: hands-on and visual acclaimed and trusted great for classrooms Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs: Entertain and educate at the same time Have appealing, child-centered topics Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists Meet national science education standards Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.
Download or read book The Voice in the Machine written by Roberto Pieraccini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and understand speech as HAL did. Is it a failure of our technology that we have not gotten much further than an automated voice that tells us to “say or press 1”? Or is there something fundamental in human language and speech that we do not yet understand deeply enough to be able to replicate in a computer? In The Voice in the Machine, Roberto Pieraccini examines six decades of work in science and technology to develop computers that can interact with humans using speech and the industry that has arisen around the quest for these technologies. He shows that although the computers today that understand speech may not have HAL's capacity for conversation, they have capabilities that make them usable in many applications today and are on a fast track of improvement and innovation. Pieraccini describes the evolution of speech recognition and speech understanding processes from waveform methods to artificial intelligence approaches to statistical learning and modeling of human speech based on a rigorous mathematical model—specifically, Hidden Markov Models (HMM). He details the development of dialog systems, the ability to produce speech, and the process of bringing talking machines to the market. Finally, he asks a question that only the future can answer: will we end up with HAL-like computers or something completely unexpected?
Download or read book Speaking Computer written by Scott Shui and published by Speaking Computer. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Speaking computer is about learning a foreign language and culture called computers. It describes the abstract world of technology in familiar human terms. By using colorful metaphors, pop culture references, and real life examples, it explains many fundamental computing ideas ... These chapters are here to serve as your guidebook for civilization's modern lifestyle tool"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant written by Dustin Coates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. Inside, you'll learn how to build your own "skills"—the voice app term for actions the device can perform—from scratch. Foreword by Max Amordeluso. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. You'll find registration instructions inside the print book. About the Technology In 2018, an estimated 100 million voice-controlled devices were installed in homes worldwide, and the apps that control them, like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, are getting more powerful, with new skills being added every day. Great voice apps improve how users interact with the web, whether they're checking the weather, asking for sports scores, or playing a game. About the Book Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. You'll learn to build applications that listen to users, store information, and rely on user context, as you create a voice-powered sleep tracker from scratch. With the basics mastered, you'll dig deeper into multiuse conversational flow and other more-advanced concepts. Smaller projects along the way reinforce your new techniques and best practices. What's inside Building a call-and-response skill Designing a voice user interface Using conversational context Going multimodal Tips and best practices About the Reader Perfect for developers with intermediate JavaScript skills and basic Node.js skills. No previous experience with voice-first platforms is required. About the Author Dustin A. Coates is a developer who focuses on voice and conversational applications. He's currently the voice search lead at Algolia and is also a Google Developers Expert for Assistant as well as cohost of the VUX World podcast. Table of Contents Introduction to voice first Building a call-and-response skill on Alexa Designing a voice user interface Using entity resolution and built?in intents in Alexa skills Making a conversational Alexa skill VUI and conversation best practices Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability Directing conversation flow Building for Google Assistant Going multimodal Push interactions Building for actions on Google with the Actions SDK
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Talking Computers and Telecommunications written by John A. Kuecken and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Talking Nets written by James A. Anderson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising tales from the scientists who first learned how to use computers to understand the workings of the human brain. Since World War II, a group of scientists has been attempting to understand the human nervous system and to build computer systems that emulate the brain's abilities. Many of the early workers in this field of neural networks came from cybernetics; others came from neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, psychology, even economics. In this collection of interviews, those who helped to shape the field share their childhood memories, their influences, how they became interested in neural networks, and what they see as its future. The subjects tell stories that have been told, referred to, whispered about, and imagined throughout the history of the field. Together, the interviews form a Rashomon-like web of reality. Some of the mythic people responsible for the foundations of modern brain theory and cybernetics, such as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Frank Rosenblatt, appear prominently in the recollections. The interviewees agree about some things and disagree about more. Together, they tell the story of how science is actually done, including the false starts, and the Darwinian struggle for jobs, resources, and reputation. Although some of the interviews contain technical material, there is no actual mathematics in the book. Contributors James A. Anderson, Michael Arbib, Gail Carpenter, Leon Cooper, Jack Cowan, Walter Freeman, Stephen Grossberg, Robert Hecht-Neilsen, Geoffrey Hinton, Teuvo Kohonen, Bart Kosko, Jerome Lettvin, Carver Mead, David Rumelhart, Terry Sejnowski, Paul Werbos, Bernard Widrow
Download or read book The Art of Computer Conversation written by Brian R. Gaines and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice/Hall International. This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides Guidelines for Designing & Judging User-Friendly Programs. Applicable to Computers of All Sizes, Gives Programmers a Repertoire of Styles & Techniques for Computer Dialogue That Enables Creation of a Variety of Effective Systems
Download or read book How to Talk to Your Computer written by Seymour Simon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how to get a computer to do something? First you need to speak in a way it can understand! Read and find out all about how to talk to your computer in this updated edition with brand-new illustrations and simple engaging text that introduces conditions, loops, and functions. How to Talk to Your Computer comes packed with visual aids like charts, sidebars, an infographic, and a computer-less coding activity! This up-to-date and accurate new edition with revised text and brand-new art was vetted by Dr. Justin Solomon, Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science title, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades and supports the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.
Download or read book Talking to Computers written by Erich A. Pfeiffer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our society today depends completely on computers. Large computer systems, used by banks, companies and government agencies, arrived first. They were followed by microprocessors, which appeared in the 1970s and led to the development of inexpensive personal computers. Those computers can now be found in almost every office and more than 30% of all American Homes. Microprocessors also have become a design element for many objects we use daily, ranging from household appliances over autos to devices for communication and entertainment. Few people are aware, how much we depend on computers; fewer still understand how computers work. Most people know, however, that the computer world consists of two parts: Hardware and Software. Hardware is easy to understand, because it is always some kind of box, with a TV-like screen and, usually, a keyboard. Computer software is different. If one buys software, one gets a box that is almost empty but for a silvery disk, like the ones that have replaced phonograph records for playing music. If one is lucky, the box also contains some cheap paperbacks, which purport to explain how to use the program for which one just shelled out lots of money. One often wonders why the software hawkers charge such outrageous prices for this stuff. Computer software has always been surrounded by a certain mystique. It is no wonder that the people who create it are often considered a bit strange. It takes a special kind of person to spend hours at a time in front of a computer screen, trying to make the machine do something, and trying to figure out why it does not do what it has been told. One needs attention to detail, perfectionism, and complete concentration to create software. The same kinds of tense young men, who once were found in the scriptoriums of medieval monasteries, debating at length how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, now reside in the cubicles of the software companies, where they debate, with equal zeal, obscure problems of the software trade. They are joined by intelligent young women, who sometimes are equally competitive. It is difficult for programmers to explain to other people what they are really doing, and they often have the reputation of being socially inept. Outsiders sometimes refer to programmers by the term "geeks", a word originally reserved for performers in carnival sideshows. The images of leaders of software empires on TV show that software people are, indeed, different from other industrialists. It was not until recently that software and its problems have attracted the attention of the public, and have even created headlines in the news media. Reports on the progress of the antitrust suit against the Microsoft Corporation may have been limited to the business sections of the newspapers. Widespread power failures due to software problems, however, were reported nationally. The Y2K problem has made the front page of serious newspapers and tabloids. The Y2K problem is only a software bug -- but some people predict it will ruin the world economy, cause widespread turmoil and may even herald the end of the world! Before we dig in, buy supplies and prepare for an Armageddon, it may be good to first seek to understand what software, its problems, and the Y2K bug are all about. This book was written by an engineer who started designing electronic instruments with tubes, transistors and integrated circuits. Then the microprocessor was invented, electronic engineering changed, and the writer designed instruments with microprocessors, keypads, digital displays and printers. Finally the writer became a software engineer and designed software for electronic equipment and military systems for more than 15 years. The book begins with a brief introduction to the building blocks of the computer, and shows how the software interacts with them. It continues with the basic elements of computer programming, using an example every
Download or read book How Do Computers Talk to One Another written by Melissa Abramovitz and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet connects computers across the world. You may have used it to surf the web or e-mail your friends. But how does it work? How can it send information around the globe? Read this book to find out!
Download or read book Computers and Conversation written by Paul Luff and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few years a branch of sociology, conversation analysis, has begun to have a significant impact on the design of human*b1computer interaction (HCI). The investigation of human*b1human dialogue has emerged as a fruitful foundation for interactive system design.****This book includes eleven original chapters by leading researchers who are applying conversation analysis to HCI. The fundamentals of conversation analysis are outlined, a number of systems are described, and a critical view of their value for HCI is offered.****Computers and Conversation will be of interest to all concerned with HCI issues--from the advanced student to the professional computer scientist involved in the design and specification of interactive systems.
Download or read book Talking Back to the Machine written by Peter J. Denning and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the editors of the renowned book Beyond Calculation, acclaimed by The New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach", comes a new collection of equal brilliance. Focusing on the impact of computers on humans, Talking Back to the Machine features essays on how computers will affect the ways we live, learn, teach, communicate, and relate to each other in the coming decades. Outstanding contemporary thinkers describe the myriad ways, both good and bad, in which our lives will be altered by information technology, and what we can do to influence these changes. Talking Back to the Machine is a must-read for anyone who is interested in technology and society.
Download or read book Talking with Computers in Natural Language written by Eduard V. Popov and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing efficiency and lower prices of computers make it possible to apply them more widely in the economy. However, the wide use of computers in every day life is hindered by a number of factors which constitute what we shall call the "problem of contact" or of "talking". The difficulty is that languages used by computers differ substantially from users' languages and are not understood by specialists who are unfamiliar with programming. This is why those specialists who use computers need the help of programmers to communicate. Since this form of communication has many more or less obvious shortcomings, great efforts have been made to find a solution to the problem of contact. Two ap proaches can be distinguished here: (1) making the computer language similar to the natural language; (2) making the user's language resemble that of computers through formalizing the former. This book deals with the first approach. We shall consider those systems which make it possible to "talk" with the user in limited natural language (LNL). The term "natural language" (NL) has been used in the title of this book instead of LNL. The reason for not using the term "limited natural language" is that this term has two meanings: (1) a dialect of a natural language; (2) a formal language whose operators are expressed by words taken from a natural language (e. g.
Download or read book Talk to Me written by James Vlahos and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Big Thing in tech--the impending revolution in voice recognition--and how it will upend Silicon Valley and change how we all live our lives
