{"id":413,"date":"2005-08-09T19:42:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/413"},"modified":"2005-08-09T19:42:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:42:59","slug":"chris-schmandts-book-available-for-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/413","title":{"rendered":"Chris Schmandt&#8217;s book available for free download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/people\/geek.html\">Chris Schmandt<\/a>, the head of MIT Media Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/\">Speech Interface Group<\/a>, has just made a PDF of his now out-of-print 1994 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1850328447\/qid%3D973644758\/sr%3D1-2\/102-9145507-7513710\">Voice Communications With Computers: Conversational Systems<\/a> available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/papers\/1994\/schmandt_book_acro50.pdf\">for download in PDF form<\/a> for free off his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/sig_papers3.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris was one of the readers for my <a href=\"http:\/\/bradleyrhodes.com\/Generals\/generals-context-reading-list.html\">Generals Exams<\/a>, and naturally this was one of the books on my reading list. It&#8217;s 12 years old at this point, but most of the issues he talks about are inherent in speech communications regardless of the technology. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Thad.Starner\/\">Thad<\/a> for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/people\/geek.html\">Chris Schmandt<\/a>, the head of MIT Media Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/\">Speech Interface Group<\/a>, has just made a PDF of his now out-of-print 1994 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1850328447\/qid%3D973644758\/sr%3D1-2\/102-9145507-7513710\">Voice Communications With Computers: Conversational Systems<\/a> available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/papers\/1994\/schmandt_book_acro50.pdf\">for download in PDF form<\/a> for free off his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/speech\/sig_papers3.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris was one of the readers for my <a href=\"http:\/\/bradleyrhodes.com\/Generals\/generals-context-reading-list.html\">Generals Exams<\/a>, and naturally this was one of the books on my reading list. It&#8217;s 12 years old at this point, but most of the issues he talks about are inherent in speech communications regardless of the technology. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Thad.Starner\/\">Thad<\/a> for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}