AI Assistants (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

290 Pages·2021·1.662 MB·English

by  Roberto Pieraccini

AI ASSISTANTS
The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
A complete list of the titles in this series appears at the back of this book.
AI ASSISTANTS
ROBERTO PIERACCINI
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Pieraccini, Roberto, 1955- author.
Title: AI assistants / Roberto Pieraccini.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] | Series: The
MIT Press essential knowledge series | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020035377 | ISBN 9780262542555 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Intelligent personal assistants (Computer software)
Classification: LCC QA76.76.E95 P48 2021 | DDC 006.30285/436—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020035377
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Roberto: Hey Jibo, what do you do all day long?
Jibo robot: Algorithms . . . lots and lots of algorithms.

CONTENTS
Series Foreword ix
Preface xi
1 What Is a Virtual Assistant? 1
2 AI and Machine Learning 21
3 Speech Recognition 53
4 Natural Language Understanding 101
5 Natural Language and Speech Generation 143
6 The Dialog Manager 161
7 Interacting with an Assistant 193
8 Conclusions 223
Acknowledgments 231
Glossary 233
Notes 239
Further Reading 253
Index 255