Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development  (English, Paperback, Huang Xuedong)

This will be the definitive book on spoken language systems written by the people at Microsoft Research who have developed the voice-activated technologies that will be embedded in Windows 2000 and other key Microsoft products of the future. This is not a Microsoft book, however, this is a book on the science and linguistics of this technology and how to use it in developing and building hardware and software products.