Best Selling Books by Michael Cohen

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to voice user interface (VUI) design. The VUI is perhaps the most critical factor in the success of any automated speech recognition (ASR) system, determining whether the user experience will be satisfying or frustrating, or even whether the customer will remain one. This book describes a practical methodology for creating an effective VUI design. The methodology is scientifically based on principles in linguistics, psychology, and language technology, and is illustrated here by examples drawn from the authors'' work at Nuance Communications, the market leader in ASR development and deployment. The book begins with an overview of VUI design issues and a description of the technology. The authors then introduce the major phases of their methodology. They first show how to specify requirements and make high-level design decisions during the definition phase. They next cover, in great detail, the design phase, with clear explanations and demonstrations of each design principle and its real-world applications. Finally, they examine problems unique to VUI design in system development, testing, and tuning. Key principles are illustrated with a running sample application. A companion Web site provides audio clips for each example: www.VUIDesign.org The cover photograph depicts the first ASR system, Radio Rex: a toy dog who sits in his house until the sound of his name calls him out. Produced in 1911, Rex was among the few commercial successes in earlier days of speech recognition. Voice User Interface Design reveals the design principles and practices that produce commercial success in an era when effective ASRs are not toys but competitive necessities.

Brother and Sister Bear are such good baseball players that Papa Bear decides they should try out for the Bear Country Cub League.

Fall in love with the simple life in paradise. Jewish Afghan families immigrate through Iran to Israel and America in hostile wartimes. Accompany the author, Michael Cohen, on his self-made spiritual voyage through historic generations. In this novel, he charmingly depicts the fascinating journey among different cultures and the three major monotheistic western religions. Michael Cohen travels from his beloved kingdom of Afghanistan; to Israel with his family to serve the army in the homeland of his faith; to America, the land of opportunity and success. Experience the memoirs of a young man growing up in Afghanistan, a prosperous and peaceful country ruled by a tolerant king. Michael''s family moves to Israel in his late teens due to an arousal of deep religious sentiments at the time of the six day war. Admire the trials and tribulations, and lessons from times of yore - Love, kindness and charity to bestow upon future generations. Authentic inspirational moments which will enthrall your soul and spirit.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this collection of essays examines the recent economic and political collapse of Argentina. The contributors bring a diversity of viewpoints as historians, economists, sociologists, journalists, and architects from North and South America. They explore how Argentina''s collapse and its consequential dismantling of prescribed models offers the opportunity for new approaches to economic, political, and social policies. Contributors include Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. (Aplicando un enfoque interdisciplinario, esta coleccion de ensayos examina el reciente derrumbe economico y politico de la Argentina. Siendo historiadores, economistas, sociologos, periodistas y arquitectos de America del Norte y del Sur, estos colaboradores expresan diferentes puntos de vista. Exploran como el colapso de Argentina y el consecuente desmantelamiento de modelos prescriptos, y ofrecen una oportunidad para nuevos acercamientos a estrategias economicas, politicas y sociales. Uno de los colaboradores es el Laureado Nobel Joseph Stiglitz.) Text in Spanish.

Do you tell yourself, "I''m not good enough," or "Things are far too difficult, why should I even try?" Words like this affect the way we feel and act. Such negative talk leads to fear, anxiety, depression and a ''why bother'' attitude. Rethink it! gives practical advice on tackling destructive thoughts that lead to anger, rejection, shame, jealousy, fear and worry. Rethink it! is a self-improvement tool kit that can be dipped into and doesn''t have to be read from cover to cover. Learn how to be more assertive, improve your communication, have better relationships and even overcome blushing. Michael Cohen is a London therapist with more than 28 years of experience and is bestselling author of The Power of Accepting Yourself.

Their love would be the story, one that starts with a beginning love and ends with faith. A loss will connect their love and open the heart to more than what meets the eye. It''s about having faith in the journey we take in life. Faith is the guide we don''t see, and this story is message to that faith. It''s Faith in the Journey.

Silent Muse is a gallery of lush and romantic fantasy portraits by artist Michael Cohen.

This is a supplementary, open-source textbook on Mechanics by Emeritus Professor Michael Cohen. It is available for free use. Please address all questions, comments, criticisms, and suggestions to the author.

"This paper attempts to balance our knowledge of holoprosencephalic spectra and continuities with important distinctions and discontinuities. Prevalence studies and syndrome delineation are briefly reviewed. The following topics receive detailed coverage: human teratogens, special aspects of forebrain and hindbrain malformations, aprosencephaly/atelencephaly, association with neural tube defects, current assessment of "facial principles," and endocrine abnormalities."

"Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote''s fancy often leads him astray?he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants?Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers'' imaginations for nearly four hundred years." --Amazon.com.

This thesis discusses the design, implementation, and testing of a buck converter with peak power tracking. The peak power tracker uses a perturb and observe algorithm to actively track the solar panel''s peak power point and a global sweep algorithm accounts for startup and multiple local maxima. The tracker takes the place of the current mode loop in the converter''s control scheme by providing a battery with peak charging current. A voltage mode loop is also designed to take over control from the tracker to complete the multi-loop structure. A solar panel simulator is designed to mimic the characteristics of an actual solar panel to allow careful testing of the tracking algorithms. A test circuit board is built and its operation is verified. Finally, the power extracting potential of the active tracking method from this thesis is compared to two simpler solar regulators.