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Citation

Psutka, J. and Müller, L. and Matoušek, J. and Radová, V. : Mluvíme s počítačem česky . p. 752, Academia, Prague, 2006.

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Keywords

computer speech processing, Czech, signal processing, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence

BibTeX

@BOOK{PsutkaJ_2006_Mluvimes,
 author = {Psutka, J. and M\"{u}ller, L. and Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Radov\'{a}, V.},
 title = {Mluv\'{i}me s po\v{c}\'{i}ta\v{c}em \v{c}esky},
 year = {2006},
 publisher = {Academia},
 address = {Prague},
 pages = {752},
 ISBN = {80-200-1309-1},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/PsutkaJ_2006_Mluvimes},
}

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Talking to the Computer in Czech (Mluvíme s počítačem česky)

The book ‘Talking to the Computer in Czech’ is the most complete and comprehensive domestic publication dealing with speech processing. The book presents an integrated view of modern methods of voice communication with a computer, especially speech recognition and synthesis, speaker identification and verification, creating speech corpora and voice dialog systems. Although the methods described are applied to the Czech environment, they are universal in their essence and can be utilized for any other language.

J. Psutka, L. Müller, J. Matoušek, V. Radová: Mluvíme s počítačem česky, Academia Praha 2006, 747 pages, ISBN 80-200-1309-1.

Awarding of the Prize of prof. A. Danilevsky for the year 2006

The Committee of the Czech Technical Institute awarded the Prize of prof. A. Danilevsky for the year 2006 to the ‘Talking to the Computer in Czech’.

In 1922 Alexander Danilevsky, Civ. Eng. ASCE, USCOLD, VDI, CAI, SCA, moved from St Petersburg to Prague, which became his home and to which he is happy to return from the USA every year. In 1938, he graduated from the College of Civil Engineering at the Prague Technical University.

He worked in the field of energetic and industrial construction. He was Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires. He is an academic of the Argentinian State Engineering Academy, a founding member of the U.S. Dam Committee, a honorary member of the Czech Technical Institute and a member of many technical and scientific organizations. The knowledge of six languages enables him to travel and work all over the world and take active part in the work in the International Dam Committee.

He set up the foundation rewarding the publications of the Czech Technical Institute out of his gratitude for his Prague education and for the knowledge gained from the Institute’s documents.