
The Applied Voice Input Output Society

Mobile Voice Conference 2015 Presentations
Keynote Presentation
Rob Chambers, Virtual assistants: Relationships with Personal Assistants, from the Assistants’ Point of View
Track 1: Applications and case studies
Challenges in practical natural language interaction
Jeanine Heck, Talking to My TV
Kathy Brown, A Smarter Natural Language for Virtual Agents
Personal assistants supporting internal company applications
Vinay Dwivedi, Giving Voice to the Enterprise (on Mobile and Wearable Virtual Assistant Apps)
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The evolution of the contact center in a mobile world
Tajinder Singh, The New Triple Play: Voice, Chat, & App Integrated for Mobile Customer Engagement
Jordan Cohen, Voice interactions between the mobile user and the call center
Connecting with consumers
Nick van Terheyden, Wearables, Health and Voice – The Perfect Storm
Sunil Vemuri, Grow with the Future of Search and Apps
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Personal assistants within the enterprise
Tom Minifie, The Evolution of the Personal Assistant
Filip Korc, Voice for the Industry Worker
Mobile apps: Creativity required
Lisa Falkson, Designing Effective Voice User Interfaces for the Connected Car
Ben Klang, The Core Elements of Multi-modal Voice Applications
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Making a call center feel like a personal assistant
Phil Gray, Challenges associated with creating natural language interfaces
Tom Lewis, Conversational IVRs: Delivering effective customer service
Mobile personal assistants: Current status and goals
Michael Johnston, Multimodal Virtual Assistants for Consumer and Enterprise
William Meisel, Company-specific virtual assistants: Necessities and possibilities
Creating effective virtual agents
Amy Stapleton, Characteristics of Highly Effective Enterprise Intelligent Assistants
Tony Ballardie, Intelligent voice control for eCommerce
Personal assistants in health and healthcare
Jonathon Dreyer, Your Virtual Physician Will See You Now
Jennifer Snell & Laura Kusumoto, Case Study: Virtual Assistants for Healthcare (Snell)Case Study: Virtual Assistants for Healthcare (Kasumoto)
Farzad Ehsani, A voice-centered multimodal wellness app
Talking to a computer: A deeper look
Marsal Gavalda, Listening to everyone (or how to avoid a societal “speech divide”)
Judith Markowitz, Robots, Speech, and Eldercare
Christina Apatow, Making IoT Conversational
Natural language and the Internet of Things
Wolf Paulus, VUI in Wearables and the IoT, technical possibilities and challenges
Deborah Dahl, Natural Language Interaction with the Web of Things
Yoryos Yeracaris, The Interface of Things: delivering real-world natural language understanding solutions
Special session :: Creating a dialog: An in-depth look at the process
K.W.(Bill) Scholz, Marie Meteer, Lorin Wilde & Emmett Coin, Creating an Advanced Dialog Application, An in-depth look at the process
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Track 2: Technologies and tools
Text-to-speech status and options
Peter Cahill, Technologies of Tomorrow
Dan Bagley, Enhanced flexibility in text-to-speech: Customization and personality
Natural language approaches and issues
Andy Peart, Risky Business: Why implementing natural language into the enterprise is a double-edged sword
Brian Garr, Understand and extracting meaning from unstructured or conversational text across languages
Building a conversational application
Sebastien Bratieres, A developer’s tour of affordable options for mobile speech recognition
Peter Leppik, A/B Testing with User Feedback
Wayne Scholar, Creating an Omni-Channel Conversational Application with Intelligent Virtual Agents
Speech interaction in the automobile
Yvonne Gloria, Is natural language the future of speech interaction in the vehicle?
Susan Hura, Worst Practices in Automotive Speech Interfaces
Deploying natural language solutions
Wolf Paulus, Natural Language Understanding – Bridging the gap between Speech Recognition and Application/Business Logic
Chester Anderson, Cloud Translation: A Speech Recognition Market Opportunity
Technology options and issues
Tom Dibert, Training data for speech recognition: the Value versus Volume continuum
Ingmar Kliche, Utilizing video streaming for company service assistant applications
Dean Neumann, The challenges of speech interaction for low-power devices
Tools you can use
Andre Natal, Web Speech API at Firefox OS – A different approach
Sara Basson, Cognitive Learning Content: A vision for how to make learning deeply engaging as well as intuitive
Integrating voice with other modes of user interaction
James A Larson, GUI Meets VUI: Some Possible Guidelines
Thomas Schalk, Automotive UI: Multimodal Design Considerations
A deeper look at the technology
Sebastien Bratieres, Deep learning in speech recognition: key insights
Jeff Rogers, Combining Voice and Vision for an Improved Sensory Experience
The role of cognitive computing and AI
David Nahamoo, Cognitive Computing: Automating and Augmenting Human Intelligence
Rick Collins, Voice and The New Enterprise AI Stack
Analytics for insights
Jeh Daruvala, Analytics for insights: Understanding your customer and your system
Michael Dwyer, The Future of Customer Analytics
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Speaker authentication: Biometrics and security
Paul Heirendt, Voice Biometrics in Insurance Claims and Customer Insurance
Jesus Aragon, Voice Biometrics Securing Mobile Transactions
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