Developments in speech technology products and deployments

Abstract:

Speech technology has not yet crossed the chasm to the mainstream but recent years have delivered substantial enhancements in both the capabilities and acceptance of speech applications. Speech synthesis has improved markedly in naturalness, speech recognition continues to evolve in both its accuracy and robustness, and user interface design and speech deployment processes continue to improve. This presentation will talk about the technology deployed by SpeechWorks in Australia and elsewhere and some of the new and emerging features that aim at producing satisfying human-computer dialogs.

About the speaker:

Dr. Andrew Hunt is a Senior Consultant with SpeechWorks Australia and was until recently Director for Speech Recognition Products at the US headquarters. Dr. Hunt was the company's representative to international standards bodies, including W3C and the SALT Forum. His standards work includes co-editing VoiceXML and SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) as well as co-editing core W3C speech standards for speech grammars and speech synthesis markup, and also leading development of several Java Speech standards. The owner of two patents in speech recognition technology, Dr. Hunt jointly developed the unit selection technology that underlies SpeechWorks' Speechify TTS product.

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