TY - BOOK ID - 85797554 TI - Hey Cyba : the inner workings of a virtual personal assistant PY - 2021 SN - 1108983146 1108976719 1108982662 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Intelligent personal assistants (Computer software) KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Agents, Intelligent personal assistant (Computer software) KW - Agents, Personal assistant (Computer software) KW - Assistant agents, Intelligent personal (Computer software) KW - Assistants, Intelligent personal (Computer software) KW - Intelligent personal assistant agents (Computer software) KW - IPA agents (Computer software) KW - IPAs (Computer software) KW - Personal assistant agents (Computer software) KW - Personal assistants, Intelligent (Computer software) KW - Virtual personal assistants (Computer software) KW - Intelligent agents (Computer software) KW - Cyba (Electronic resource) KW - Hay Cyba (Electronic resource) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85797554 AB - Recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially neural network and deep learning technology, have led to rapidly improving performance in voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa. Over the next few years, capability will continue to improve and become increasingly personalised. Today's voice assistants will evolve into virtual personal assistants firmly embedded within our everyday lives. Told through the view of a fictitious personal assistant called Cyba, this book provides an accessible but detailed overview of how a conversational voice assistant works, especially how it understands spoken language, manages conversations, answers questions and generates responses. Cyba explains through examples and diagrams the neural network technology underlying speech recognition and synthesis, natural language understanding, knowledge representation, conversation management, language translation and chatbot technology. Cyba also explores the implications of this rapidly evolving technology for security, privacy and bias, and gives a glimpse of future developments. Cyba's website can be found at HeyCyba.com. ER -