Download or read book The Computer s Voice written by Liz W. Faber and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment. Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people.
Download or read book The Voice in the Machine written by Roberto Pieraccini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 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 Making Computers Talk written by Ian H. Witten and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up with Science written by and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume sixteenth of a seventeen-volume, alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia contains approximately five hundred articles introducing key aspects of science and technology.
Download or read book Voice Communication with Computers written by Christopher Schmandt and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the operating theory and practical applications of voice processing technology. From the basics of telephonics, to speech recognition and coding and language processing, all the essential concepts are explored, with an emphasis on applied science.
Download or read book Concepts of Computer Science written by Sanjeev Thakur and published by Rudra Publications. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Science is the basic need of every organization to find out where it stands. it is a very important subject of students and every person involved in it has prescribed set of tasks. A major goal of this book “Concepts of Computer Science” is not just to explain fundamental theories and concept of computer science discipline, but to help students apply those theories and concepts to their IT lives and work lives. This book is a modest attempt to give exposure of concepts of computer science. This book has been written for the students of Class 1 to Graduation. All the new features included and extensive revision done, we feverishly hope that the book would appeal to the students , the teachers and all the interested reader. All the suggestions and feedbacks are welcomed to further improve the quality of the content to achieve the objective of presenting this book.
Download or read book Introducing Computers written by Robert H. Blissmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annually-updated introductory computing text exposes students to recent technological advances without sacrificing a thorough coverage of the basics or slipping into unnecessarily technical discussions.
Download or read book Computer Speech written by Manfred R. Schroeder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access. The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed. The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis. Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.
Download or read book Computer Science and its Applications written by James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 6th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-14) will be held in Guam, USA, Dec. 17 - 19, 2014. CSA-14 presents a comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in engineering systems in computer science, and applications, including ubiquitous computing, U-Health care system, Big Data, UI/UX for human-centric computing, Computing Service, Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing and will show recent advances on various aspects of computing technology, Ubiquitous Computing Services and its application.
Download or read book Computers written by Floyd Fuller and published by EMC/Paradigm Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook and instruction manual describes the role of computers in our lives and in society, and covers various aspects of computer hardware (including input, processing, output, and storage), system and application software, telecommunications and networks, databases and information management, applications design and programming, security and ethics, and careers. A companion CD-ROM contains videos illustrating key points, projects and tutorials, self-tests, and a chronology of computer development. Fuller teaches at the Appalachian State University; Larson, at California State University- Stanislaus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Interactive Speech Technology written by Chris Baber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with two important technologies in human-computer interaction: computer generation of synthetic speech and computer recognition of human speech. It addresses the problems in generating speech with varying precision of articulation and how to convey moods and attitudes.
Download or read book AS and A Level ICT Through Diagrams written by Alan Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Revision Guides are highly effective for both individual revision and classroom summary work. The diagrammatic approach makes the key concepts and processes, and the links between them, easier to memorize.Comprehensive coverageKey topics are graphically presented on page spreads, making the books extremely easy to use. Additionally, this book features specification matching grids so that you can feel confident that your specification is covered.Saves revision timeYour students will save valuable revision time by using these notes instaed of condensing their own. In fact many students are choosing to buy their own copies so that they can colour code or highlight them as they might do with their own revision notes.
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Download or read book The Dyslexic Scholar written by Kathleen Nosek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the special needs of the dyslexic student, focusing on how parents can work with the school system to obtain an educational evaluation and secure appropriate placement for the student.
Download or read book Computers and the Americans with Disabilities Act written by John Ash McCormick and published by New York : Windcrest. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) opens the doors for millions of physically and mentally disabled Americans. This book shows business managers and human resources directors how to use computers to more easily and cost-effectively conform to ADA regulations and, at the same time, how to profit by adding disabled employees to their payrolls.
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Download or read book Concise Guide to Computers in Clinical Psychiatry written by Carlyle H. Chan and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It focuses on computer applications relevant to clinical psychiatric practice, including all the new tools for assimilating and managing the requisite knowledge, facilitating the required documentation, and providing clinical service.
