SpeechTEK Labs

This year marks our second SpeechTEK Lab, in which attendees can sample the latest speech technology products, talk to developers, and speak openly to our expert panel of judges about the technology. These Labs will provide objective evaluations of new speech technology and show how speech is breaking new ground in various industries. As an added benefit, the judges will issue ratings of the tools to provide further guidance. Demos will showcase some of the ways companies are incorporating speech technology into different enterprise areas and what various speech technology vendor R&D departments are working on. MONDAY, AUGUST 24 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. LAB 1: Speech Synthesis Participants: Cepstral Loquendo Tellme Lessac Technologies, Inc IVONA 1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. LAB 2: Speaker Identification and Verification This lab gives you hands-on experience with the products of major companies offering speaker-recognition technology and solutions. You will be shown the best each company has to offer both with regard to application design and performance for enrollment, verification, and related technologies. Then, We will ask you to give SpeechTEK and the companies in the lab your feedback. Participants: Recognition Technologies Convergys Speech Technology Center Nuance Communications VoiceVault Avaya Persay TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. LAB 3: Mobile Devices This workshop will showcase the latest operating systems and development environments of industry leading handsets. Innovative applications and the SDKs used to build the applications for different handsets will be the primary focus. New multimodal applications appear on a wide range of phones from low-end devices to smartphones. The speech technology can be embedded with the device or server-based and accessed over a high-speed mobile network thereby providing greater speech processing power while still maintaining thin client benefits yielding longer battery life and low memory requirements. Device functionality has evolved quickly with such advances as wide screen displays, multi-touch interfaces, accelerometers, sensors, GPS, and integrated iPod functionality. The sophistication of today’s mobile devices has caused a worldwide flurry of new applications that have spawned new ways of communicating, new forms of entertainment, easy access to information, and a variety of location based services. And with open source trends and widely available tools has come a growing community of application developers making devices compelling. Participants: Novauris Nuance Vlingo VoiceObjects Nokia 1:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. DEMO 1: The Voice-Enabled Enterprise From traditional desktop dictation to multimodal applications supporting an increasingly mobile workforce, voice applications are becoming more and more pervasive in the enterprise. Application possibilities are endless. Office workers use speech to interact with their desktop applications. Help Desks are using voice for applications like password reset. And there is a wide spectrum of hands-busy/eyes-busy tasks where voice can dramatically improve workers' efficiency. All kinds of platforms are involved telephone, desktop, mobile devices as well as special purpose devices. This session will showcase a set of thought-provoking and inspiring enterprise voice applications, and give attendees the chance to interact one-on-one with the vendors and with the applications. Participants: Cisco Cisco/Datria Come and try innovative enterprise mobility solutions from Cisco and Datria, including award winning (Speech Technology magazine) use of VoIP and inexpensive wireless phones to perform warehouse Voice Picking. Also try mobile speech solutions for retail store floor management, field service, enterprise asset management, plant maintenance, time & attendance, and password reset. Microsoft Openstream SmartAssistant Openstream will be showcasing its SmartAssistant product that helps the user on the move, through multimodality. Smart Assistant handles (announces and reads) incoming calls, text messages, emails, schedule and events and allows users to respond using voice, touch, or keypress as appropriate. Smart Assistant provides access and sychronization for Enterprise contacts/ schedule data. In addition, Smart Assistant helps track (tweet) friends and family. Speech Technology Center Voice Pin VoicePin is an ideal solution to ensure security of corporate or personal data on mobile devices. VoicePin combines reliability of biometric verification with convenience of natural voice interface right on your handheld device. VoiceKey Service: VoiceKey Service (VKS) is a software application for voice verification. VKS is an efficient solution for enterprise IT security. The system is designed to control users' access to the corporate informational resources using the parole phrase and the unique shape of human vocal tract. Lyrix Mobiso 6.0 From BlackBerry and Web, mobile business users download the Mobiso application and immediately sync. contacts, social networks, and corporate addressbook entries with the powerful Cloud Based Mobiso intelligent addressbook. Once synced., simply call Mobiso and through voice recognition: call, send a message, and conferencing your colleagues and teams hands free. Loquendo, MicroAutomation MicroAutomation Employee Services The MicroAutomation Employee Services demonstration provides a sample of utilizing Loquendo speech recognition to authenticate an employee through speech verification. In addition, the demonstration emphasizes the broad range of vocabulary recognition and text to speech engine through speech enablement of employee service applications. LumenVox Speech enabling your enterprise with SpeechBridge, powered by Lumenvox Incendonet's SpeechBridge gives companies a speech driven auto-attendant, mobile e-mail access, calendaring and a complete, standards based IVR speech platform for an endless variety of proven speech enabled applications that can be easily deployed in under an hour! We will showcase administering and then using the speech-attendant, mobile e-mail and calendaring applications. Autonomy etalk Autonomy In this demo, Autonomy's Qfiniti Explore uses Meaning Based Computing technology to provide speech and content analytics that delivers conceptual search, automated clustering, hot and breaking topics, and script adherence functionality. This enables organizations to leverage voice interactions as a source of relevant and insightful business intelligence for customer analysis, legal compliance, and strategic operations. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. DEMO 2: In Beta: Products in R&D SpeechTek's "In Beta" lab will showcase products and services in beta — that is, ones that are not quite ready for full commercial deployment, but ready enough for friendly testing and early adopters. Participating companies will showcase beta products and services with hands-on, individual or small-group demonstrations. Attendees can expect short, informative, and educational discussions about new and interesting products related to speech technology. Some products and services are targeted to speech technology professionals, some to general products and services industries, and others to the public as a whole. Participants: Deutsche Telekom, Laboratories Multimodal Application Builder Loquendo RebelVox Voxer: A New Way to Communicate with Voice (And Much More) RebelVox will demonstration a radical new take on integrated voice communications that removes the separation between live voice and messaging, works for any number of participants, integrates voice seamlessly with text, and delivers dramatic new levels of efficiency for users. Voxeo Lyrix