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July 14 2016

Voice Application Development for Android

Speech technology has been around for some time now. However, it has only more recently captured the imagination of the general public with the advent of personal assistants on mobile devices that you can talk to in your own language. The potential of voice apps is huge as a novel and natural way to use mobile devices. Voice Application Development for Android is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a series of clear, step-by-step examples which will help you to build on the basic technologies and create more advanced and more engaging applications. With this book, you will learn how to create useful voice apps that you can deploy on your own Android device in no time at all

What You Will Learn

• Use text-to-speech synthesis so that your device can talk to you
  
• Enable your device to recognize your speech
  
• Create simple voice interactions to get information and carry out commands
  
• Develop a voice app that engages in a dialogue with you to collect the information required to perform a transaction
  
• Use grammars to enable your app to understand the meaning behind your words
  
• Make use of different languages in your apps
  
• Add multimodal interaction to your apps as an alternative to speech
  
• Build a voice-based personal assistant using an open source development platform for chatbots
  

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