What this book covers

Chapter 1, Speech on Android Devices, discusses how speech can be used on Android devices and outlines the technologies involved.

Chapter 2, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, covers the technology of text-to-speech synthesis and how to use the Google TTS engine.

Chapter 3, Speech Recognition, provides an overview of the technology of speech recognition and how to use the Google Speech to Text engine.

Chapter 4, Simple Voice Interactions, shows how to build simple interactions in which the user and app can talk to each other to retrieve some information or perform an action.

Chapter 5, Form-filling Dialogs, illustrates how to create voice-enabled dialogs that are similar to form-filling in a traditional web application.

Chapter 6, Grammars for Dialog, introduces the use of grammars to interpret inputs from the user that go beyond single words and phrases.

Chapter 7, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogs, looks at how to build apps that use different languages and modalities.

Chapter 8, Dialogs with Virtual Personal Assistants, shows how to build a speech-enabled personal assistant.

Chapter 9, Taking it Further, shows how to develop a more advanced Virtual Personal Assistant.