The Applied Voice Input Output Society
Israel Chapter
To address the need for more frequent networking opportunities, AVIOS is supporting the creation of Local Chapters. This will provide a forum for people interested in speech technology across all dimensions – research, application development, or marketing – to convene more frequently and to learn more about advances in their own region.
The Israeli Local chapter was officially announced in 2005 and has change the face of the speech community by creating a forum for people to meet, exchange views and interact.
Dr. Nava Shaked is the chairperson of the Israeli chapter and is also an active member of the AVIOS board. Over the years the nationwide annual AVIOS meeting in Israel has made a name for itself.
A final note:
The speech community is filled with wonderful people who are in many ways special. Our purpose in establishing a local chapter in Israel is to overcome the distance and bring the new and interesting from oversees to meet the new and innovative which is our share in Israel.
Past Events
28 March 2017 | AVIOS HIT Annual Conference
Prof. Eduard Yakubov, President, HIT | Greetings
Dr. Nava Shaked, Chairperson AVIOS Israel & HIT | Conversational Interactions
Prof. Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University | Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People
Ms. Shira Gal, Beit Issie Shapiro | From Nice to Have to Must Have
Dr. Hadas Lewy, Clalit / HIT (CARE) | Technologies, Treatment of Chronic Patients and Social Inclusion of the Elderly
Ms. Rotem Israel, HIT | Kids 4 Kids - Harnessing Technology to Bridge Communities
Dr. Roberto Pieraccini, | Director, Advanced Conversational Technologies, Jibo | The Challenge of Conversational Machines: from MUSA to Jibo
Mr. Ron Shamir, Phonetica | Information Privacy: Who is Accountable?
Dr. Michal Rosen-Zvi, Director, Health Informatics, Haifa Research Lab, IBM | Addressing Special Health Needs Via Personalized Systems that Learn from Data
Alex Pavtoulov, CEO, Ola Mundo | Disrupt the Barriers of Autism
Mr. Boaz Zilberman, CEO, Project Ray | A Simple and Accessible Smartphone for the Visually-Impaired
Mr. Allon Gladstone, COO, HereO | From PowerPoint to Product - Learnings from a hardware startup
Ms. Dafna Presler, Product Evangelist, Intuition Robotics Social Robot for Older Adults
Conversational Interactions - from Needs to Solutions | Dr. Yoram Levanon, Beyond Verbal Communication. Dr. Boaz Ben-David, IDC Herzeliya. Michal Naveh, Musician. Assa Arbel, HATAAGID - Digital Team
See videos of the presentations here
8 September 2015 | Tenth Anniversary of AVIOS Israel
Presenter: Sara Basson, Accessibility Evangelist, Google
Google Accessibility - The Goals, The Challenges, And The Role of Speech Technologies
Presenter: Ute Winter, General Motors R&D, Israel
User Adaptation for Automotive Speech Interfaces
Presenter: Shai Nissim, VP R&D VivoText & Co-Founder and CEO Kinedio
Can our Voice Live Forever? Innovative voice cloning technology represents us even if we are not around
Videos
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Dr. Nava Shaked | Welcome remarks and AVIOS timeline
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Dr. Sara Basson | The Goals, The Challenges, And The Role Of Speech Technologies
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Dr. Ute Winter | User Adaptation for Automotive Speech Interfaces
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Shai Nissim | Can our Voice Live Forever?
Photos
Photographs of the 10th anniversary event
1 July 2013 | Speech Processing Conference
Presenter: Prof. Chin Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Keynote: “An Integrated Detection and Verification Approach to Speech Processing”
Prof. Lawrence Rabiner, Rutgers University, USA
Seminar: MATLAB© Programs for Digital Speech Processing
AVIOS Israel 2009
Presenter: Avi Sharfi
Speech Recognition & Voice2Text In The Medical World
Presenter: David Thomson
Crossing Speech Technology Thresholds
Presenter: ורד זילבר-ורוד | Vered Zilber Varod
פּרוזודיה בדיבור והשפעתה על תקשורת אדם-מכונה
Speech Prosody
Presenter: ד”ר נאווה שקד | Dr. Nava Shaked
Multilanguage Speech Systems
Presenter: Simon Rapoport
Contemplating the horizons of mobile speech applications
Presenter: Almog Aley-Raz
Voice Biometrics
Presenter: ד”ר עמי מויאל | Dr. Ami Moyal
תמלול דיבור ספונטני
Spontaneous Speech Transcription
Presenter: דאלון גיספן | Alon Gispan & Sigali Raz
עקרונות לפיתוח VUI במערכות זיהוי דיבור
פּרוזודיה בדיבור והשפעתה על תקשורת אדם-מכונהVUI במערכות זיהוי דיבור
Principles for Developing VUI Speech Recognition Systems
AVIOS Israel 2007
Presenter: טרנר עופר | Ofer Turner
Challenges Facing CBphone Telecom
Presenter: מגוון פתרונות לזיהוי דובר סוד הקסם הנעלם
The Secret of Disappearing Magic: A verity of solutions for speaker identification
Presenter: Ron Hoory
Contact Center of the Future and Conversational Technologies
Presenter: Judith Markowitz
Keynote: Using Speaker Recognition
Presenter: אבישי זעירי | Avishai Zairi
The Name of the Game – Integration
Presenter: Maurizio Miragoli
Using Voice Biometrics to Verify Identity over the Telephone
Presenter: Zohar Dvir
שיחה אינטראקטיבית עם מחשב חזון ויישומו
Interactive Conversation with a Computer: The vision and it’s implementatio
Presenter: עידו יצחקי | Ido Yitzhaki
הפלטפורמה החכמ מענה חדשני לצרכי הארגון בתחום הדיבור
Smart Platform: Innovative response for the organization needs in the speech field
Presenter: אבי פרייפלד | Avi Freifeld
SPEECH האתגר בגיבוש פתרונות אינטראקטיביים חדשים תוך שילוב
The challenge in formulating new interactive solutions combined SPEECH
Presenter: Dr. Christian Dugast
Speech Applications: The 3 Main Reasons for Success – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Presenter: Daniel O’Sullivan:
Using Adaptive Technology and Heuristic Models to personalize automated calls and improve the efficiency of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems
Presenter: Atzmon Ghilai
Semi-Supervised Learning Processes in Speech Recognition Systems
Presenter: רפי נשיא | Rafi Nassi
Hosted Speech Solutions
Presenter: ד”ר עמי מויאל | Dr. Ami Moyal
טכנולוגיית זיהוי דיבור – מציאות, מיתוסים וחזון
Speech recognition technology – reality, myths and vision
Presenter: עופר אלט | Ofer Alt
ארכיטקטורות קישור והפעלת פלטפורמת זיהוי דיבור בסביבה הארגונית בקלות, במהירות וביעילות וללא “מהפכות
Link architectures and operating Speech Recognition Platform Corporate environment easily, quickly and efficiently without “Revolutions
Presenter: ד”ר נאווה שקד | Dr. Nava Shaked
Selection Processes
Chapter Lead
Nava Shaked, CEO, BBT and Holon Institute of Technology affiliation
Dr. Shaked is a world famous expert in AI applications, NLP (Natural Language Processing), as well as Call Centre optimization technologies. Shaked held senior management positions with IBM and several other large IT organisations and has been involved in leading major projects in Israel and the US for more than 20 years. Shaked holds a Ph.D. in AI from CUNY, New York where she currently a Visiting Professor and she is a member of the Engineering Faculty in HIT, Israel.