Preface

Robots That Talk and Listen assembles a comprehensive vision of speech-enabled robots from multiple vantage points. Between its covers you will find science and culture, hardware and software, frameworks and principles, learning and teaching, and technology and art – in the past, the present, and the future. The perspectives represented are those of roboticists, speech scientists, and educators; researchers from industry and academia; young children and seasoned scholars. The product of this diversity is a compendium that advances the art and science of spoken-language processing in robots.

This 12-chapter anthology is partitioned into four parts followed by a conclusion that extends the vision beyond speech and language.

The chapters ...

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