TY - BOOK AU - Pieraccini,Roberto TI - AI assistants T2 - The MIT Press essential knowledge series SN - 9780262542555 (paperback) AV - QA 76.76 P615a 2021 U1 - 006.30285/436 PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Intelligent personal assistants (Computer software) KW - Asistentes personales inteligentes (software informático) KW - Interacción hombre-máquina (Informática) KW - Reconocimiento automático de la voz N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; What is a virtual assistant? --AI and machine learning -- Speech recognition -- Natural language understanding -- Natural language and speech generation -- The dialog manager -- Interacting with an assistant -- Conclusions N2 - "A brief introduction to the technology, the issues and future of virtual agents such as Siri, Alexa and the Google Assistant"-- ER -