What's all the Hype about Voice?
Applications and Technologies for the next
12-18 Month Market

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Open to the public.

Registration recommended.
There is a limit of 60 participants

Fee: $10 (payable by check or cash day of program)
(No fee to Sponsors of the Center)

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This Interactive Panel Discussion is a follow-up program to the Think Tank Session on voice-driven enterprise applications that took place at the Center on September 13, 2000. A panel of experts from the Think Tank Session and others will be discussing the deployment of voice and speech-recognition technologies and applications for consumers and enterprises.

PANEL

Moderator:
Bryan Mekechuk, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder,
VOCI CORPORATION

Panelists:
Jack Chang, President and Chief Executive Officer,
BLUE SILICON

Jeff Kunins, Manager, Developer Products & Evangelism,
TELLME NETWORKS, INC.

Bryan Michael, Product Manager,
BEVOCAL, INC.

Richard Swan, Director, Director, Corporate Research Center,
SAP LABS INC., PALO ALTO

Foad Vafai, Product Manager, International Products,
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS

DESCRIPTION

Speech has long been the "holy grail" of human-computer interfaces in pop culture. From "Star Trek" to Disney World's "Home of the Future," we have always expected voice to be the ultimate way we would desire to interact with our automated assistants. Two aspects turn out to be true. First, that powerful speech-driven applications are a reality today. Second, that voice is not the "ultimate interface" for all applications; designing effective voice user interfaces presents real challenges which are distinct from those in the visual realm. In the past 12 months, a new breed of companies, and consequently new markets, have sprung up around the convergence of "Voice" and "the Web." These companies capitalize on 1) recent advances in pure, speaker-independent speech recognition that enable a broader class of commercial-grade applications, and 2) on the massive global investment companies have recently made in "Web-ifying" their backend infrastructure. There has been an emergence of companies that deliver a range of both consumer and corporate services.

Traditional Web services use technologies like Perl, ASP, or WebSphere to dynamically generate HTML by executing database queries and other logic on the server. The emerging VoiceXML standard brings this paradigm to the phone, giving developers an easy, integrated way to deliver a voice-enabled version of their services that completely leverages their existing Web investment.

An interactive dialogue between the panelists and the audience participants will focus on voice technologies and applications for the next 12-18 month markets.

REGISTRATION
To register, please send name, title, company, email address and phone number to:

Sara K. Dean
Program Manager
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Em: sdean@worldinternetcenter.com