Join our Afeka EE Facebook Page for frequent updatesThis past June 8th, the Afeka Center
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!
