VoiceXML Review

Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2002

Motorola and SpeechWorks Develop First Distributed Speech Recognition Prototype On a Deployed Wireless Network

SpeechWorks International, Inc., the global leader in speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies and services and a Promoter member of the VoiceXML Forum, and Motorola, Inc. a Sponsor member of the VoiceXML Forum, recently announced the development of a live prototype for distributed speech recognition (DSR) and multimodal applications using SpeechWorks' OpenSpeech Recognizer(TM) (OSR) speech recognition engine and DSR architecture. The Motorola prototype is the first known case of DSR working over a deployed wireless network.

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SpeechTEK 2002 Seeks Speaker and Paper Proposals

The SpeechTEK 2001 Educational Conference attracted over 500 professionals from around the world plus 78 exhibitors and another 2,250 registrants for the annual trade show. SpeechTEK received approximately 200 speaking requests last year and had 137 speakers participate. SpeechTEK 2002 expects to be attended by over 600 participants with another 2,500 registering for the trade show.

Proposals for papers and speaking slots for SpeechTEK will be evaluated in terms of their importance to end-users, educational content, originality, and the knowledge and experience of the participant. Please send original proposals that are not sales presentations. The deadline for submissions is February 28th and notification will be made by April 15th. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Please submit a separate abstract for each proposed topic.
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Speech Industry preps for TVUIC Conference

The speech technology industry will converge at the Telephony Voice User Interface Conference, to be held 4-6 February 2002 in Scottsdale, Ariz. More information

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