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You're reading from Voice Application Development for Android A practical guide to develop advanced and exciting voice applications for Android using open source software

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783285297

Length 134 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Voice Application Development for Android

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Speech on Android Devices FREE CHAPTER

2. Text-to-Speech Synthesis

3. Speech Recognition

4. Simple Voice Interactions

5. Form-filling Dialogs

6. Grammars for Dialog

7. Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogs

8. Dialogs with Virtual Personal Assistants

9. Taking it Further

Afterword

Index

Summary

This chapter has provided an introduction to speech technology on Android devices. We examined various types of speech app that are currently available on Android devices. We also looked at why we decided to focus on Google Speech APIs as tools for the developer. Finally we introduced the main technologies required to create a Virtual Personal Assistant. These technologies will be covered in the remaining chapters of this book.

We will introduce you to text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) and show how to use the Google TTS API to develop applications that speak in the next chapter.