AVIOS Speech Application Contest Announcement of Winners

AVIOS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 – 2010 Speech Application Contest.  Eighteen student groups submitted speech applications developed for a variety of platforms including Opera, WAMI, Voxeo, and AT&T Mashup.  Students attended universities from coast to coast and as far away as Tamil Nadu, India.  AVIOS judges worked with every application and assigned winners to the four categories shown below.

Best Overall

Andrew Riker & Eli Finkelshteyn, Brandeis University
Application: Voice-controlled page navigation utility for Wikipedia
Advisor: Marie Meteer
Use: download the .xpi file at  http://people.brandeis.edu/~ariker/wvni/ and install in FireFox.  Then, navigate to any Wikipedia page.

Best Multimodal

Ovidiu Mihaescu & Ahmed Badran, Portland State University
Advisor: Jim Larson
Application: Hangman game built using WAMI
Use: http://web.pdx.edu/~mihaescu/hangman/hangman.htm

First Runner-up, Multimodal

Mukul Sapre, Hussain ALSeddiq, &  Vijay Gokarn, Portland State University
Advisor: Jim Larson
Application: Hangman game for Opera
Use: http://web.pdx.edu/~alseddiq/hangman/hangman.xhtml

Most Creative/Innovative

Rahul Sanghi, Vellore Institue of Technology
Advisor: S. Margret Anouncia
Application: Farmer's buddy (agriculture) using Opera
Use: http://123.237.93.249:8081/FarmerWeb/welcomefarmer.xhtml 
(contact rahul7588@gmail.com to schedule website availability)

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