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David L Thomson
VP Speech Technology
CaptionCall


For 33 years, David Thomson has developed and managed software and algorithm creation for speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech compression, and voice biometrics.  He has managed speech R&D for voice interface systems that have handled over 20 billion calls. He recently joined CaptionCall, a company that uses speech recognition to provide communication services for the hard of hearing.  He previously served as Vice President of Speech Research at Interactions, LLC, Speech Research Director at AT&T Labs, Lucent Speech Solutions CTO, Fonix Corp. CTO, SpeechPhone Inc. CTO, and SpinVox Inc. (now Nuance) Speech Technology SVP.  He has 11 patents and 30 published speech technology papers.

Conference Sessions By Mr. David L Thomson
SpeechTEK 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. C105: Innovative Applications of Speech Technology From Academia

SpeechTEK 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. SD202: Tuesday Knowledge CafĂ©
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. B204: PANEL: Innovative Applications of Speech Technology From Academia

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. STKU-6: Recent Deep Neural Net (DNN) Advances in Speech

SpeechTEK 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. STKU-5: Deep Neural Networks in Speech Recognition

SpeechTEK 2016
Thursday, May 26, 2016
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. STKU-4: Deep Neural Networks in Speech Recognition

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. D201: How Statistical Language Models Work

SpeechTEK 2015
Monday, August 17, 2015
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. C101: Humans as Speech Recognizers
1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. D103: Recent Deep Neural Net Techniques for Speech Recognition

SpeechTEK 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. SD101: Pitfalls in measuring speech recognition accuracy

SpeechTEK 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. D105: Dynamically Reconfigurable Statistical Language Models

SpeechTEK 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. D203: New Approaches to Dialogue Management
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. D205: Case Study 4: Managing Call Center Changes

SpeechTEK 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. D301: Innovative Uses of Speech Technology
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. D302: Improving Speech Input

SpeechTEK 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. C304: Toward Anthropomorphic Systems

Tuesday, August 3, 2010
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. C205: Testing Strategies

SpeechTEK 2009
Monday, August 24 2009
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. C102: Models of Dialog Management

Tuesday, August 25 2009
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. A202: Balancing Automation and Agent Interactions
1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. D203: Multimedia in the Call Center

SpeechTEK 2008
Monday, August 18
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. C104: Advanced Dialogue's Growing Sophistication

Tuesday, August 19
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. D204: Speech in Government/Utilities

SpeechTek 2007
Monday, August 20
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. E103: New Language Specifications
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. E104: Which Tools Are Right for You?

Tuesday, August 21
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. B204: Watch Your Grammar

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