SIGdial – the ACL’sSpecial Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, has
established a collaboration with both organization’s events. Learn More...
Speech Technology Consortium
The STC is dedicated to helping increase innovation in speech recognition technology by fostering an environment of cooperation among companies, universities, and research institutions. Learn more…
The Changing Perception and Reality of Speech Recognition
Siri sets a high bar for call center technology.
William Meisel
Most consumers have encountered speech recognition largely in call center automation, where the speech recognition can be annoyingly overstructured. Callers might feel they are being prevented from speaking to an agent by the automated system, a further source of annoyance. Part of the negative view of speech recognition has also been its limitations compared to human speech recognition.
The 2012 Afeka-AVIOS Speech Processing Conference is organized by The Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP) and AVIOS Israel. The 2012 conference will be held at the Afeka Academic College of Engineering in Tel-Aviv on June 19-20 and will offer representatives from the academic and industrial speech communities a unique forum for coming together, raising relevant issues, sharing accomplishments and establishing collaborations.