{"product_id":"make-python-talk-mark-liu-9781718501560","title":"Make Python Talk: Build Apps with Voice Control and Speech Recognition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA project-based book that teaches beginning Python programmers how to build working, useful, and fun voice-controlled applications. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the way, you'll learn how to: \u003cbr\u003e● Build Python modules, implement animations, and integrate live data into an app\u003cbr\u003e● Use web-scraping skills for voice-controlling podcasts, videos, and web searches\u003cbr\u003e● Fine-tune the speech recognition to accept a variety of input\u003cbr\u003e● Associate regular tasks like opening files and accessing the web with speech commands\u003cbr\u003e● Integrate functionality from other programs into a single VPA with computational knowledge engines to answer almost any question \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePacked 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1718501560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781718501560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e No Starch Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.93w x 1.10d","brand":"Mark Liu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049243111679,"sku":"9781718501560","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c627074b-a018-415d-8e3a-302f1fd0b1e2.jpg?v=1685000465","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/make-python-talk-mark-liu-9781718501560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}