AVIOS/TMA Associates
Oct. 04, 2007
In August, AVIOS (the Applied Voice Input Output Society) and Bill Meisel (president of TMA Associates and Editor of Speech Strategy News) announced the new Voice Search Conference in San Diego, California, March 10 - 12, 2008. Voice Search takes advantage of advances in speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and other advanced speech technologies to create applications such as:
- Directory assistance and location-based services;
- Information services supporting mobile users;
- General web search by voice;
- Search of audio/video sources on the web or in enterprises by content;
- Transcription of voice mail and other audio content to make them searchable;
- Integrated “personal-assistant” services that add features to voice search;
- Using voice search technology within the call center; and
- Contact center solutions that address increased call volumes and responses to mobile ads resulting from voice search.
Voice Search will have a major impact--not only on consumers and customers—but on service providers, content providers, marketing strategists, call centers, and their vendors.
Loquendo, Nexidia, Novauris, and West Interactive are supporting sponsors. With over 30 years’ speech technology experience, Loquendo is a leading innovator in automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis - providing a complete range of technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions. Nexidia is the market-leading provider of highly scalable and accurate rich media search and speech analytics software. Novauris’s core speech recognition/search technology offers unparalleled speed and accuracy for large-scale client-server and embedded voice mobile search applications. West Interactive is a world-class provider of automated customer contact solutions.
Media/Analyst sponsors are Opus Research and Speech Strategy News.
AVIOS sponsors an annual speech application development contest for students (www.avios.org), and the winners will be announced at the Voice Search Conference. The contest is supported in part by Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and VoiceObjects.
Program details and registration information can be found at www.voicesearchconference.com.
THE VOICE SEARCH CONFERENCE
Search technology, in some cases supported by advertising, is an increasingly important method of reaching customers and is well established as a text-based Web solution when using PCs. Speech access can extend this success to mobile phones, and this process is beginning with speech-enabled business directory assistance and other services. When the current phase of trials is complete and the services are widely (and competitively) promoted, usage will grow rapidly. Voice search will have subsidiary effects as users get increasingly comfortable and familiar with automated speech services that go far beyond augmenting touch-tone solutions. At the same time, the ability to search audio and video for content, or to convert audio to text will allow efficiencies and analytics that substantially impact business practices. The conference will cover these evolving opportunities for companies, service providers, and vendors.
See www.voicesearchconference.com, or contact Peggie Johnson (info@avios.org).
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
About Nexidia
Nexidia is the market-leading provider of highly scalable and accurate rich media search and speech analytics software. By transforming audio and video data into business intelligence, Nexidia allows both government and commercial enterprises, in industries such as Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, Technology, Media Creation and Aggregation, Telecommunications and Outsourcing, to leverage untapped information previously locked away in audio-video content. Based on years of research and development, Nexidia’s phonetic engine is the only technology that allows the user to search on proper names, places, industry terms and jargon without extensive training and cumbersome dictionaries. The process is adaptable to a range of audio analyses and excels across the full spectrum of audio quality. For more information, please visit www.nexidia.com.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
About AVIOS
The co-conference organizer, the Applied Voice Input Output Society (AVIOS) is a non-profit professional society, created a quarter-century ago, dedicated to promoting the development and diffusion of real world applications of speech technology. For more on AVIOS, see www.avios.org.
About Bill Meisel and TMA Associates
William Meisel, president, TMA Associates, is publisher and editor of Speech Strategy News and a consultant on market and product opportunities created by the maturing of speech technology. For more on TMA Associates or Speech Strategy News, see www.tmaa.com.
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