Approximately 100 exhibitors will be showing their wares at the 11th annual SpeechTEK show, which will also host over 75 educational sessions. Featured sessions include:
- Vertical market workshops covering utilities, financial, services, healthcare, retail, and others
- An advanced speed technology symposium "for engineers and implementers to explore recent technological advancements in conversational speech technologies"
- A conference on sourcing speech services, "a must-attend for enterprise and carrier executives (CMOs, CTOs CIOs) looking at options for outsourcing self-service . . . and also [for] application developers and solutions providers ready to mix and match speech-enabled, network-based resources."
Back at the "Hot, Cool and Retooled" Demo Lounge, here's a preview of some of the applications that will appear:
- Cepstral will demonstrate its small footprint text-to-speech (TTS) voices running on Windows CE, Symbian, Palm OS, and Embedded Linux.
- IBM will demonstrate its WebSphere Multimodal Environment, developed to "help users escape from the jungle of remote controls."
- Kirusa will showcase several multimodal speech applications, including a stock transaction application, a messaging application and an application that lets a user "play an interactive uame using their voice as a 'third han' to find hidden words in a grid."
- Loquendo will present its "assistive" applications for the visually impaired, based on the company's latest multilingual embedded technologies and "expressive" text-to-speech on mobile phones and PDAs.
- The SpeechWorks division of ScanSoft will demonstrate its SpeechPAK TALKS screen reader application, which converts the displayed text oo a cellular handset into speech, "providing extensive feature accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals as well as greater convenience for all users."
- Spoken Translation will demonstrate its Converser for Healthcare, which it touts as "the world's first two-way, cross-lingual, interpretation product for a PC tablet." With it, users can input data by typing, handwriting or speaking, then receive a translation from Spanish to English or visa versa, either in speech or displayed text.
- VoiceSignal will feature its speaker-independent speech recognition software for mobile devices, including VSuite for voice dialing and voice commands, and VoiceMode voice-to-text input.
Further details on SpeeckTEK are available on the conference's
website.
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