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Revisiting Afeka's Speech Recognition Day

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This past June 8^th, the Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP) hosted the first ever Speech Recognition Day. The main purpose of the day was to provide both the industry and academia a platform for presenting and discussing new activities in the field of Speech Recognition.

During the conference the Afeka team of ACLP researchers was given the opportunity to present summaries of our research activities. The audience was very receptive and supportive, making it enjoyable for all of us. The highlight of the day was of course an hour-long presentation given by Speech Recognition guru, Larry Rabiner. Professor  Rabiner provided us all with a fascinating historical summary of the advancements seen in speech recognition over the past two decades.

Professor Rabiner also took part in a panel discussion at the end of the day. His enthusiasm on the topic of Speech Recognition was contagious. Other speakers included: Dr. Nava Shaked of BBT, who gave an interesting perspective on voice interfaces for Call Centers; Dr. Ute Winter of GM, who enlightened the audience regarding new human machine interaction  technologies for cars; Ilan Feldman from Speech Modules, who provided the audience with an impressive demo of spontaneous speech recognition; and Dr. Irit Ofer from Nice, who offered a rare peek into the speech technologies used in the military intelligence and law enforcement industries.  Other guest speakers included representatives of start-up companies in the industry who demoed Hebrew TTS technologies, and a unique microphone that cancels external noise by limiting the field of audio reception.

It was great to see that nearly 200 professionals from the speech community attended the conference. To my personal delight, quite a number of linguists were also among the attendees. We were also completely surprised and overjoyed to hear that an additional 230 people watched the conference via live internet feed!

Professor Ali Levin - עלי לוין

שלום

מסלול ההתמחות בתקשורת המוצע לסטודנטים בהנדסת חשמל באפקה,

מתמקד בשכבה הפיזית (שכבת הרדיו) ובטכנולוגיות אלחוטיות חדשניות

הקיימות בתעשייה כגון

WIMAX

MIMO

OFDM

LTE

RFID

לצד קורסי ליבה כמו למשל תקשורת ספרתית, תקשורת אלחוטית, תורת המידע

ואלקטרואופטיקה, אנו מעבירים קורסים מתקדמים, הן בהיבטים מערכתיים

(תקשורת אופטית, מערכות מכ"ם, מערכות ניווט ואיכון)

והן בהיבטים טכנולוגיים (אנטנות, רכיבי רדיו ומיקרוגלים, עיבוד אותות).

דגש רב מושם על התנסות מעשית במעבדות, מימוש פרויקטים במהלך הקורסים

וקשר הדוק עם תעשיית התקשורת הישראלית. סטודנטים רבים נחשפים במהלך

הלימודים לתהליכי פיתוח של מוצרים אמיתיים ואף נוטלים חלק פעיל בביצוע

סימולציות, מדידות מעבדה וניסויי שדה.   

Voice Interface to Database Search - Final Project, Afeka College of En...

A vocal interface to a system that conducts a vocal dialog with the user in order to retrieve data from a database.

"Meyda-Net" system was chosen as a model to implement the concept of accessing a database using voice. In the implemented system the student will be able to retrieve his courses grades and his exam locations by stating the data he needs and then he will receive the relevant information by voice.

 

ממשק בדיבור עם מערכת המנהלת דיאלוג קולי עם המשתמש על מנת לקבל מידע ממאגר נתונים.

מערכת מידע-נט נבחרה כמודל למימוש הרעיון של חיפוש בבסיס נתונים באמצעות דיבור.

במערכת שמומשה, הסטודנט יוכל לברר את ציוניו בקורסים וכן את מיקום המבחנים אליהם הוא רשום על ידי אמירת המידע לו

Final Project by Eliran Tsarfati, Electrical Engineering Student,

Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering

Speech Recognition Day - Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP)

Speech Recognition Day
Tuesday, June 8, 9:00-17:00
Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP)

Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering
Tel Aviv, 218 Bney Efraim St., Main Auditorium
Participation Fee: 120 NIS
For details/registration contact: lior@afeka.ac.il +972.3-768-8663

This conference is intended for industry and academic researchers and developers in the field of speech recognition, and for product marketing, business development and project management professionals that either employ or plan to employ speech recognition technologies.

Chairman: Dr. Ami Moyal, Head of Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP) 

 
Opening Session 
8:30: Registration and Networking 
9:00: ACLP Activities - Dr. Ami Moyal 
9:30: Greetings - Prof. Moti Sokolov, President, Afeka College 
Mr. Moshe Kahalon, Minister of Communication 

Guest Lecturer 
10:00: The Evolution of Speech Recognition Technology - Prof. Larry Rabiner, University of California, Santa Barbara 
11:00: Break and Refreshments 

Session 1: Ongoing Research Activities, ACLP Faculty 
11:30: Approaches in Very Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition - Ms. Dikla Shchnike 
11:45: Creating Word Hypotheses Using Anchor-Based Algorithms for Searching in Very Large 
Vocabularies - Ms. Ella Tetariy 
12:00: An Efficient Distance Measure for Comparing Phoneme Sequences - Mr. Baruchi Har-Lev 
12:15: Linguistic Aspects of Lexicon Compilation for Spontaneous Voice Message Recognition- 
Ms. Michal Gishri and Ms. Vered Silber-Varod 
12:45: Automatic Emotion Detection in Natural Speech - Dr. Vered Aharonson 
13:00: Light Lunch 

Session 2: Industry Perspective 

13:45: Facing the Ultimate Design of Speech Driven Applications - Dr. Nava Shaked - BBT 
14:00: Natural Language Speech Interfaces for the Automotive Environment - Dr. Ute Winter - GM 
14:15: Voice mail Transcription- Requirements from the ASR engine - Mr. Oved Tzfania - Speech Modules 
14:30: Speech Recognition Technologies for Intelligence and Law Enforcement Organizations – Dr. Irit Opher - Nice 
Systems Ltd. 
14:45: Break and Refreshments 

Session 3: A Glimpse At Start-Up Products 
15:00: Start-Up Product and Technology Presentations 

Session 4: Panel - The Next Stage in Speech Recognition R&D and Academic-Industry Cooperation 
15:20: Panel Moderator - Dr. Ami Moyal 
16:30: Closing Remarks 

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Nava Shaked: Never Speechless

Nava Shaked: Never Speechless

May 15, 2010

For the past twenty years, I have been a part of the very unique Speech community, working around the world of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field in general and Voice technologies, specifically.

I am part of the generation who made the move from the research labs to industry, developing live systems and constantly aspiring to get more and more speech applications running while continuously coming up against the disbelief and technological fears of customers. 

Today, there is no doubt that speech technology works and the bigger question is how to make people use it and like it.  It is questions of cultural factors coupled with linguistic issues and technological boundaries.  In short Voice User Interface (VUI).  VUI's goal today is to bring speech to the masses in the most natural way possible.

Remember that Speech in the most natural way to communicate, it facilitates self services not replacing people. It is enhancing service and customer satisfaction while saving money. It is that synergy between man's expertise and natural manner of communication that we aspire to accomplish on our field.

Speech Recognition Day, June 8th at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering, is an initiative to bring together wide array experts to discuss speech technologies. We invite you to join us in this speech celebration.