Get a step-by-step guide for developing voice interfaces for applications and devices connected to the Internet of Things. By allowing consumers to use natural human interactions, you can avoid awkward methods of input and interactivity to provide them with elevated user experiences. This practical book is ideal for software engineers who build applications for the Web, smartphones, as well as embedded systems that dominate the IoT space.Integrate voice interfaces with intern...

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Unleash the power of computer vision with Python using OpenCV Key FeaturesBook DescriptionOpenCV 3 is a state-of-the-art computer vision library that allows a great variety of image and video processing operations. Some of the more spectacular and futuristic features such as face recognition or object tracking are easily achievable with OpenCV 3. Learning the basic concepts behind computer vision algorithms, models, and OpenCV's API will enable the dev...

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabiliti...

Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices -- may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on how to use them well.UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. If you learn these, and...

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Mobile App Manual: The Blueprint explains how to create hybrid mobile applications using modern technologies like jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap Build. Learn about the history, tools, and process surrounding creating hybrid mobile applications. Learn about the modern mobile app landscape, and the tools that can be leveraged to create hybrid applications in a fraction of the time it takes to create traditional native mobile applications. Learn about a specific process that can be put into pract...

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This eBook is intended to teach the basics of using the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS) to create and manage databases and is ideal for those unfamiliar with both databases in general and MySQL in particular. Topics covered include the basics of relational databases MySQL installation on Linux and Windows systems an overview of the MySQL administration tools database security and detailed tutorials on using SQL to create manage and retrieve data.

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