2009-2010 Speech Application Contest Rules and Entry Form

The following are the rules for the 2009-2010 Student Speech Application Contest. Please download a complete copy of the rules and entry form (.pdf).

Please fax this completed form to +1.408.323.1782 or e-mail this completed form to Peggie Johnson at peggie@avios.org on or before November 15, 2009.

Demonstrate your creativity and programming skills in voice or multimodal applications by entering the AVIOS Speech Application Development Contest organized by the Applied Voice Input Output Society. Develop a speech mediated application by February 12 and win cash, software, or hardware prizes worth over $1000 per student team plus world-wide recognition on the AVIOS web site and other public announcements.

Contest rules
1.  Students must be enrolled in high school or in an accredited university or college   A faculty advisor must validate that the contestants are students by completing and submitting this form. Students may form teams of five or fewer members.

2. The application must support speech input and/or output and may support other modes and media. Teams may choose to implement applications using any of the following platforms

3. The application must be non-confidential, non-proprietary, and preferably open source. Submitted applications must be executable on one of the five platforms listed above.

4. All team members must complete the contest entry form before November 30, 2009 with notification of acceptance sent to teams by December 15, 2009. The application must be completed during the following two months, and submitted for judgment by February 12, 2010. Only accepted applications will be judged.

5. Teams must arrange for hosting their contest applications for testing and evaluation by the contest judges during February, 2010, and for general public use from April 2010 through April 2011

6. The application content must not be illegal or in poor taste. All work must be original.

7. Judges will be speech application experts from AVIOS. Judges will use the following criteria: robustness, usefulness, technical superiority, user friendliness, innovation, and creativity.

8. Winners will be publicly recognized at the Voice Search Conference in San Francisco in April 2010.

• The judges’ decision is final. All contest winners must supply personal identification before collecting prize money.

• Winning entries and other submitted applications selected by the judges may be posted on the AVIOS Web site to inspire other speech and multimodal application developers. AVIOS may use the application resources (such as audio and visual materials) for promotional purposes in future years.

• Any one student can participate in at most two (2) entries.

• By submitting an entry, contestants verify that the submitted application is their own original work, and agree that AVIOS is not liable for any copyright or intellectual property claims. Contestants may need to obtain permission from their platform vendor before commercializing the submitted application or any of its derivatives.
  

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