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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