Make Python Talk: Build Apps with Voice Control and Speed Recognition

Author:   Mark Liu
Publisher:   No Starch Press,US
ISBN:  

9781718501560


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   24 August 2021
Format:   Paperback
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A project-based book that teaches beginning Python programmers how to build working, useful, and fun voice-controlled applications. This fun, hands-on book will take your basic Python skills to the next level as you build voice-controlled apps to use in your daily life. Starting with a Python refresher and an introduction to speech-recognition/text-to-speech functionalities, you'll soon ease into more advanced topics, like making your own modules and building working voice-controlled apps. Each chapter scaffolds multiple projects that allow you to see real results from your code at a manageable pace, while end-of-chapter exercises strengthen your understanding of new concepts. You'll design interactive games, like Connect Four and Tic-Tac-Toe, and create intelligent computer opponents that talk and take commands; you'll make a real-time language translator, and create voice-activated financial-market apps that track the stocks or cryptocurrencies you are interested in. Finally, you'll load all of these features into the ultimate virtual personal assistant - a conversational VPA that tells jokes, reads the news, and gives you hands-free control of your email, browser, music player, desktop files, and more. Along the way, you'll learn how to- ● Build Python modules, implement animations, and integrate live data into an app ● Use web-scraping skills for voice-controlling podcasts, videos, and web searches ● Fine-tune the speech recognition to accept a variety of input ● Associate regular tasks like opening files and accessing the web with speech commands ● Integrate functionality from other programs into a single VPA with computational knowledge engines to answer almost any question Packed with cross-platform code examples to download, practice activities and exercises, and explainer images, you'll quickly become proficient in Python coding in general and speech recognition/text to speech in particular.

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Author:   Mark Liu
Publisher:   No Starch Press,US
Imprint:   No Starch Press,US
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781718501560


ISBN 10:   1718501560
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   24 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Everything you need to build a voice interface to the digital world. Voice is a critical part of the coming metaverse and Dr. Liu helps us take this leap. -Shane Hadden, Financial Technology Lecturer, University of Kentucky A solid book for anyone who wants to leverage the power of the Python programming language to add speech capabilities to their programs . . . Make Python Talk presents these speech software libraries with clarity and ease. -Al Sweigart, best-selling author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other No Starch Press titles


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Dr. Mark H. Liu is an Associate Professor and director of the Master of Science in Finance Program at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches Python Predictive Analytics and runs Python workshops. He has more than 20 years of coding experience in C++, SAS, Stata, and Python, and his research has been published in many top finance journals.

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