VoiceXML and Dialog Systems Resources: Books

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VoiceXML and Dialog Systems Resources: Books

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VoiceXML

There are a number of VoiceXML books on the market:

The VoiceXML Handbook: Understanding and Building the Phone-Enabled Web by Bob Edgar, CMP Books, 2001; ISBN: 1578200849.
VoiceXML: Professional Developer's Guide by Chetan Sharma and Jeff Kunins, John Wiley & Sons, 2001; ISBN: 0471418935.
Early Adopter VoiceXML by Stephen Breitenbach et al, Wrox Press Inc, 2001; ISBN: 1861005628.
Voice Enabling Web Applications: VoiceXML and Beyond by Kenneth R. Abbott, a! Press 2001; ISBN: 1893115739.
Voice Application Development with VoiceXML by Rick Beasley (Editor), Sams, 2001; ISBN: 0672321386.

Dialog System Design and Development

Any one of the above will tell you about using VoiceXML, but they are not so good on the more subtle aspects of dialog design and related matters. For these topics, you might try either of the following:

How to Build a Speech Recognition Application: A Style Guide for Telephony Dialogues by Bruce Balentine and David Morgan, Enterprise Integration Group, 2001; ISBN: 0967127823.
Designing Interactive Speech Systems: From First Ideas to User Testing by Niels Ole Bernsen et al, Springer Verlag, 1998; ISBN: 3540760482.

Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition

For more general introductions to speech recognition and natural language processing, you could try these:

Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition by Dan Jurafsky and James Martin, Prentice Hall, 2000; ISBN: 0130950696.
Building Natural Language Generation Systems by Ehud Reiter and Robert Dale, Cambridge University Press, 2000; ISBN: 0521620368.
Handbook of Natural Language Processing by by Robert Dale et al (editors), Marcel Dekker, 2000; ISBN: 0824790006.
Natural Language Understanding by James Allen, Addison-Wesley, 1995; ISBN: 0805303340
Foundations of Statistical Natural Processing by Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schutze, MIT Press, 1999; ISBN: 0262133601.
Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang et al, Prentice Hall, 2001; ISBN: 0130226165.
Fundamentals of Speech Recognition by Lawrence Rabiner and Biing-Hwang Juang, Prentice Hall, 1993; ISBN: 0130151572.