Can anyone on the thread attend this?
Monday May 3, 3:21 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Speech Recognition Usability is Major Focus of
AVIOS Speech Developers Conference
The Conference & Expo Will Cover Speech Recognition,
Text-to-Speech, and Speaker Verification for Designers, Developers,
and Their Managers
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 1999-- Speech recognition's shift from
basic technology to issues in designing for usability will be the focus of the featured speeches at the AVIOS Speech
Developer's Conference & Expo '99.
The American Voice Input / Output Society (AVIOS) is holding the AVIOS Speech Developer's Conference & Expo '99 in
San Jose, Calif., May 24-26, at the San Jose DoubleTree Hotel.
Don Norman, a proponent of user-centered design, will speak on ''The future of speech is in the future.'' Norman is a
well-known critic of the difficulty of using today's PC and other technology. A former executive at Apple Computer and
Hewlett Packard, he is author of ''The Design of Everyday Things'' and ''The Invisible Computer.''
Clifford Nass will speak on ''Social responses to voice input and output,'' discussing his research on people's expectations of
voice-based computers, automated call centers, and other media that use voice input and output. Nass is an associate
professor at Stanford University and the co-author of ''The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Televisions, and
New Media like Real People and Places.''
Candace Kamm will speak on ''Evaluating Spoken Dialog Systems.'' She will discuss a method of evaluating spoken language
interfaces and some experimental results using the method. Kamm is a division manager in the Speech and Image Processing
Services Laboratory of AT&T Labs.
In addition to the featured talks, there are 15 sessions focusing on specific topics, with over 50 speakers. In addition, there is a
full-day tutorial program.
Tom Schalk, AVIOS President and Chief Technical Officer of Voice Control Systems, said, ''There remain many technical
challenges in speech recognition, but the major market bottleneck is a lack of skilled speech application designers and
developers. This year's AVIOS conference is specifically focused on addressing that problem. It will help both developers and
their managers understand how to get applications designed better and faster. The keynote speeches put the solutions into the
broader context of user-centric design.''
William Meisel, Executive Director of AVIOS and President, TMA Associates, notes the wide scope of the sessions: ''Some
sessions focus on tools and techniques for specific market segments, including telephony, PCs, consumer products, and noisy
environments such as warehouses. Other sessions emphasize the techniques that cross segment boundaries. Application and
customer-perspectives sessions provide specific case studies.''
Dialogic, Dragon Systems, Fonix, IBM, and Motorola sponsor the 1999 Conference. Exhibitors include Dragon Systems, GM
Voices, Fonix, Chant, Elan Informatique, Motorola, Dialogic, Emkay Innovative Products, Telex, Information Storage Devices,
Unisys, Voice Control Systems, Lucent Technologies, SpeechWorks, Nuance Communications, VXI, Vocalis, Mindmaker,
Eloquent Technologies, Sensory, Speech Solutions, Locus Dialogue, Enterprise Integration Group, Periphonics, General
Magic, and TechWeek.
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