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Biographical Information

Dr. Thomas Schalk
Vice President, Voice Technology
ATX, a subsidiary of Cross Country Automotive Services

Dr. Thomas B. Schalk is Vice President, Voice Technology at ATX, a leading telematics service provider with customers that include Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and BMW. Dr. Schalk is responsible for guiding ATX's voice technology vision. He leads a group that focuses on developing speech-enabled telematics services. Prior to joining ATX, Dr. Schalk was the CTO of Philips Speech Processing, and the CTO of Voice Control Systems. He has over twenty years of experience in the speech recognition industry. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University.

Conference Sessions By Dr. Thomas Schalk

SpeechTEK 2010

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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

SD201: What’s New in the Driver’s Seat?

1:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

LAB 5: Innovative Solutions Lab

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

C303: Advanced Voice User Interface and Dialogue

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

A304: Speech in the Cloud

SpeechTEK 2009

Monday, August 24 2009

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	C103: Advanced Dialog Strategies
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	C104: Voice Interaction Optimization
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	C106: Evolving Standards, Part 1

Tuesday, August 25 2009

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

C204: Advanced ASR Application

SpeechTEK 2008

Monday, August 18

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	C101: Advanced ASR: A Global Perspective
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	C102: Application of Advanced ASR
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	C105: Natural Language Processing Techniques
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	C106: Virtualization and Intelligent Integration

Tuesday, August 19

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	C202: Enhanced VUI : Context-Sensitive Dialog
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	C204: Advances in Automotive Speech

SpeechTek 2007

Monday, August 20

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	C101: Advances in Speech Recognition Processing
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	C102: Advances in Text-to-Speech Processing
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	C103: Advances in Natural Language Processing
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	C105: Voice Search

Articles By Dr. Thomas Schalk

Beyond Voice Search

The mobile user interface reaches a new level.

Posted 02 Apr 2009 - March/April 2009 Issue - by Thomas Schalk

VUIs in Vehicles: Meeting Customer Expectations

How well do automotive speech-enabled interfaces meet customer expectations? One could say that it depends on the application, but beyond voice dialing, the room for improvement seems endless. In fact, it has only been recently that the usability of in-vehicle voice technology has begun to meet customer expectations.

Posted 09 Nov 2006 - November/December 2006 Issue - by Thomas Schalk

Speech in the Car

Defined as the integration of telematics and interactive speech technology, voice telematics makes it practical to use an audio interface to do things while driving. Driver distraction is minimized because eyes can be kept on the road.

Posted 05 May 2003 - May/June 2003 Issue - by Thomas Schalk

The Evolution of Global Speech Technology

The voice user interface is evolving into a standard means for communication between humans and technology and is having a profound influence on the way people live. As such, the market for these speech applications is growing worldwide. Following necessary research and development, multilingual product offerings continue to expand, particularly for countries where more advanced telecommunications technology is common.

Posted 29 Mar 2002 - March/April 2002 Issue - by Thomas Schalk