English | August 14, 2018 | ISBN: 1725656655 | 408 pages | PDF
by Jim Schwoebel It's an exciting time to be a developer in the voice computing space: 1 in 4 searches on Google are now voice-enabled, Amazon Alexa just passed 10,000 skills, and 100 million calls are completed on WhatsApp daily. But where do you go to start learning how to code in this field?
Whether you are a veteran developer or just starting out, this book guides you through the process of building voice-based applications in Python.

Understand how to read/write, record, clean, encrypt, playback, transcode, transcribe, compress, publish, featurize, model, and visualize voice files
Build your own voice computer and voice assistant from scratch
Design cutting-edge microservice server architectures on top of Docker and Kubernetes
Get access to 200+ starter scripts in a GitHub repository
Become involved in the larger open source voice community