Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments

From the reviews:

“In this book, the authors describe their approach to OwlSpeak, an adaptive spoken dialogue manager (ASDM). It is intended to be a spoken interface to intelligent environments in the context of real-life situations. … we found the book very valuable in providing an overview of the fundamental challenges with SDSs, approaches toward the realization of such systems, and a framework for the evaluation of spoken dialogue managers.” (Franz Kurfess and Xiaoxi Luo, Computing Reviews, June, 2013)