The Speech Technologies Group at the IBM Haifa Research Lab (HRL) invites speech professionals to a full-day seminar on Speech Technologies, to be held on Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
This full-day seminar provides a forum for the research and development communities from both academia and industry to share their work, exchange ideas, and discuss issues, problems, and work-in-progress, as well as future research directions and trends. The seminar agenda will be posted at a later date. It will include frontal presentations and a poster session.
The seminar will take place at the HRL site on the Haifa University campus, in the auditorium (room L100). Lunch and light refreshments will be served. Participation is free.
See http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/speech2008/index.shtml for detail.
| 09:00 Registration 09:30 Opening Remarks Oded Cohn, Director, IBM Haifa Research Lab 09:45 Challenges of Speech Solutions in Call Centers Nava Shaked, Manager, CRM & Call Center, IBM Israel 10:15 Actionable Intelligence via Speech Analytics Ofer Shochet, Senior VP, VERINT 10:45 Discriminative Keyword Spotting Joseph Keshet, IDIAP 11:15 Break 11:30 Recent Advances in Speech Dereverberation Emanuel Habets, Bar-Ilan University & Technion 12:00 On Improving the Quality of Small Footprint Concatenated Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems David Malah, Head of Signal Processing Lab, Technion |  | 12:30 Keynote. Superhuman Speech Recognition: Technology Challenges and Market Adoption David Nahamoo, Speech CTO and Business Strategist, IBM Watson Research Center 13:30 Lunch 14:30 Using Speech Processing Technologies in Audio Search Applications Ido Itzhaki, Director, Business Development, NSC 15:00 Intra-class Variability Modeling for Speech Processing Hagai Aronowitz, IBM Haifa Research Lab 15:30 Retrieving Spoken Information by Combining Multiple Speech Transcription Methods Jonathan Mamou, IBM Haifa Research Lab 16:00 Poster Session & Refreshments |
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