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AVIOS – SIGdial Collaboration

SIGdial – the ACL’s Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, has established a collaboration with AVIOS in order to facilitate the interchange of ideas and to cross-promote both organization’s events.

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What Speech Can Reveal About Your Health
Adjusting analytics to determine the meaning of a cough.
Lorin Wilde

Ever since Eric Bland’s article “Cough into Your Cell Phone, Get Diagnosis” ran on the Discovery Channel’s Web site in November, the story has spread virally. Imagine being diagnosed in the comfort of your own home. As we weathered flu season and fear of pandemics, newly funded research to diagnose respiratory illnesses with software that analyzes coughs seemed just what the doctor ordered. That this funding was coming from the Gates Foundation made the report only more enticing, especially to those searching for the next killer application.

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Student Application Contest 2008-2009

2010-2011 Speech Application Contest

AVIOS is pleased to announce its fifth annual student speech application contest. The contest encourages students to develop applications using speech technologies such as automatic speech recognition and text to speech synthesis and to combine them with other modalities.

Prizes will be awarded to the teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged to be the most robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly.

Applications will be accepted starting August 16 and entries must be submitted by Friday, December 17. Winners will be announced the second week in January. The overall winner will be honored at the Mobile Voice Conference, in San Jose, California on January 24, 2011.

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