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Presentations

December 3, 2007:

Unified Communications, “Please…Bumper Sticker it for Me” (.pdf)
John Geise

December 12, 2006:

Speech Service Creation (.pdf)
Bill Scholz, Ph.D.

Speaker Biometrics (.pdf)
Ken Rehor, Ph.D.

March 28, 2006:

How to Create a Compelling Customer Experience (.pdf)
Elaine Cascio, Vice President, Vanguard Communications Corp

Customer experience is the next competitive battleground. Good service isn't enough anymore - companies need to truly differentiate themselves through clear strategy that drives the customer experience. Many companies don't give much thought to the importance of having the IVR, contact center, retail locations, website, kiosks, advertising, written materials and correspondence match the overall company brand, image and values. We'll look at ways to create a consistent experience no matter how customers contact you, some examples of good - and not so good - customer experiences, and the role speech plays in enhancing the customer experience.

Overcoming the Difficulties of Names (.ppt)
Murray Spiegel, Ph.D, Director, Speech Applications Research, Telcordia Technologies

A key feature of useful speech recognition services is name recognition accuracy - autoattendants, voice dialers and routing systems all depend on accurate recognition of names. If recognizers don't predict how names are pronounced with their full variability - when the pronunciation for Casimir Skrzypczak is a wild guess, the prediction for Alyssia Chaoui is wrong, or the location variants for Bogota, Piaget or Quabeck are unknown - unsatisfactory performance is the result.

Telcordia's name pronunciation package reduces error rates for many players in the speech market. Developed over more than 20 years, the software package has unparalleled accuracy for the millions of names of people, places and businesses found in the US. We'll describe the research behind its development, and its flexibility that adapts to any speech engine on the market.

Proceedings

June 3, 2005 (.pdf)

Michael Picheny
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - A Shakespearian View of the Status and Future of Speech Recognition

Keith Bain, Stan Armstrong
Liberated Learning

Julien Ghez and Jerome Gue
Protitle Live - ViaScribe for Broadcast Subtitling

Sarah Conrod
Enhancing Accessibility in Interpretative Talks

Dr. David Nahamoo
Speech Transcription and Analytics Opportunities

James Glass and Regina Barzilay
Automatic Processing of Spoken and Written Lecture Material

Mike Wald
Personalized Displays

Dimitri Kanevsky, Alex Faisman, Sara Basson
CaptionMeNow

 

 

   
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