August 13 - 15, 2012 New York Marriott Marquis

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Sunrise Discussions	Customer Case Studies	Speakers
Keynotes	Register Now	SpeechTEK University

William Meisel President TMA Associates

Bill Meisel is president of TMA Associates (www.tmaa.com). Meisel, a consultant on commercial applications of natural language processing and speech recognition, is also the organizer of the Conversational Interaction Conference and is an author, most recently, of Computer Intelligence. In the 1980s, he founded and ran a speech recognition technology company and earlier wrote the first book on machine learning (computer pattern recognition) as a university professor. Meisel holds a  Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He currently consults and writes. Bill can be reached at wmeisel@tmaa.com.

Monday, April 27, 2020

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

A101: Company Digital Assistants: The Future Is Coming Fast

Monday, April 29, 2019

11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

A102: Building Customer Service Digital Assistants

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD202: Knowledge Café: Meet the Consultants

Monday, April 9, 2018

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

A102: Being Smart About Developing Intelligent Assistants

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD202: Tuesday Knowledge Café

Monday, April 24, 2017

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

C103: Creating an Effective Company Digital Assistant

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Keynote 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

KEYNOTE PANEL - The Way Forward: Keeping Speech in the Conversation

Monday, May 23, 2016

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

B101: The Growing Role of Natural Language

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	A301: New Applications for Using Voice, Part 1
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	A301: New Applications for Using Voice, Part 1
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	A302: New Applications for Using Voice, Part 2
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	A302: New Applications for Using Voice, Part 2

Monday, August 17, 2015

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

C102: Infotainment Through Conversational Apps: Possibilities and Challenges

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Keynote 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

The Evolution of Computers and Society

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

A302: Enterprise Virtual Assistants: Empowering Employees and Customers

Monday, August 18, 2014

2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

A104: PANEL: Evolution or Revolution?

Monday, August 19, 2013

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

A101: The Economic Impact of Tighter Human-Computer Connection

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

A202: PANEL: The Business Value of Digital Personal Assistants

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

D201: PANEL: Intelligent Voice Assistants, Part 2: Achieving the Vision

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	A205: What’s Next for Speech? Analysts’ Perspectives
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	A201: The Role of Speech in Smartphones

Monday, August 2, 2010

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

B102: Optimizing Speech for Mobile Users

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

B205: Analytics for the Whole Customer Experience

Tuesday, August 25 2009

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

A205: A Look Ahead

Wednesday, August 20

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

A304: The Crystal Ball

Monday, August 20

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

D101: Speech in the Mainstream: Top Trends

Wednesday, August 22

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	D301: Avoiding Voice Fraud & Threats
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.	D302: Legal Issues with Speech