Guiding the reader through every aspect of the field, from design principles to infrastructure to effective fine-tuning strategies, this volume analyzes the extent to which research on academic spoken dialog systems converges with real-world applications.

Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems covers the peculiarities of commercial deployments of spoken dialog systems, from the tools, standards, and design principles to build them, the infrastructure to deploy them, techniques to monitor, evaluate, and analyze them, and, most importantly, effective strategies to adapt, tune, and optimize them. The book shows to what extent academic spoken dialog system research converges with real-world applications. This academic and practical synergy can be leveraged to build successful and robust spoken dialog applications that are useful when dealing with the dynamics of the ever-changing future user.

Combines academic spoken dialog system research with real-world applications to give readers a complete look at the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext

Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems covers the peculiarities of commercial deployments of spoken dialog systems, from the tools, standards, and design principles to build them, the infrastructure to deploy them, techniques to monitor, evaluate, and analyze them, and, most importantly, effective strategies to adapt, tune, and optimize them. The book shows to what extent academic spoken dialog system research converges with real-world applications. This academic and practical synergy can be leveraged to build successful and robust spoken dialog applications that are useful when dealing with the dynamics of the ever-changing future user.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Building Spoken Dialog Systems for the Real World: Paradigms, Tools, Limitations.- Measuring Performance of Spoken Dialog Systems.- The Continuous Life Cycle of Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems.- Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems' Alpha and Omega: Adaptation and Optimization.- Academic vs. Commercial Perspective of Spoken Dialog Systems: Past, Present, and Future.