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2009-2010 Speech Application Contest Announcement

AVIOS is announcing the fourth annual student application contest sponsored by AT&T, Cepstral, Google, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, Opera and Voxeo. Students enrolled in colleges or universities worldwide are encouraged to participate in this year’s contest by registering to participate by November 30, 2009 and submitting applications to our judges by February 12, 2010.

Applications must involve speech input and/or output, and may be either pure speech or multimodal.

Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1,000 will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly.

Winners will be announced at the Mobile Voice Conference in San Francisco in April, 2010.

Teams may choose to implement applications using any of the following platforms (in alphabetical order by vendor).  Check back later:  additional platforms may be added.

Speech Mashup using AT&T Natural Voices speech synthesis and Watson speech recognition

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Mashup using Cepstral's VoiceForge TTS service with 50 voices in 5 languages

Getting Started

Google Logo

Android SDK for mobile devices

Getting Started

Voice-only using VXI* browser from i6net

Getting Started

Loquendo VoxNauta Platform with languages English, Italian, Spanish, French, or German

Getting Started

 

Voiced only using LumenVox Speech Engine Standard License

Getting Started

Microsoft's Speech API in Micrsoft Windows, Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API, and Tellme VoiceXML Platform

Getting Started

 

Multimodal using XHTML plus VoiceXML from Opera 

Getting Started

Voice-only using VoiceXML from Voxeo Prophecy; Mashup using Tropo.com and from Voxeo and scripting languages Groovy, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

Getting Started

Conversational Dialog using RavenClaw/Olympus*

Getting Started

Multimodal web application using MIT's WAMI Toolkit*

Getting Started

For a list of the contest rules and entry form, go to http://avios.org/contest/entry.htm.

Check out previous winners!

Critical dates:
Entry form submitted by November 30, 2009
Application submitted by February12, 2010.
Winners announced March 2010
Winners awarded formally April 2010

* CMU and MIT are supporters of this contest

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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