Hey Speech-Heads,

Just about everyone here at The Home Office has SpeechTEK Europe Fever.  My Speech Brother Eric B. has it so bad he had to hire an Office Health Aid.  Like he said: “I’m nervous and my socks are too loose.”

So, as we all count down to The Big Dance, check out Conference Chair Jim Larson dishing on some of his personal programme highlights from SpeechTEK Europe.

What are you looking forward to at SpeechTEK Europe 2010? I believe that speech-enabled multimodal applications are the wave of the future, and so I’m particularly looking forward to Professor Wolfgang Wahlster’s Keynote presentation on research in European universities and company laboratories in the areas of speech, multimodal, and multilingual technologies so I can plan to use these new types of technologies when they become available. In Developing Multimodal Applications, attendees will learn how to integrate web-based services to create “mashup” applications involving speech, and how to develop multimodal applications on a variety of mobile devices. I believe these approaches will be widely used to deploy speech-enabled multimodal applications that customers can use anywhere, anytime on nearly any device. In our Panel Session: Advanced Speech Recognition Techniques and Experiences, developers will give first hand experiences about designing, implementing, and deploying call routing applications. I’m looking forward to learning from their successes as well as their mistakes in providing voice-based call routing. The Using Voice Biometrics Session explains how to identify speakers and verify that speakers are who they claim to be. These promise to help minimise fraud and theft. The European market place is multilingual, yet most of today’s speech applications only speak and understand a single language. SpeechTEK Europe has two Sessions on developing multilingual speech applications, how to conduct usability tests in multiple languages, and how to deal with cross-cultural attitudes about IVR and speech systems. Other highlights for me at SpeechTEK Europe are sessions describing challenges in new IVR markets, key directions for unified communications and hosting/premise, and a panel of analysts predicting the future of speech in Europe.

The questions about SpeechTEK Europe never stop around The Home Office.  My Speech Brother Eric B. and I must field about 100 calls everyday:

What’s up with SpeechTEK University?  What’s the deal with Conference Sessions?  What do I need to know about Keynotes?  What should I do with the precious moments of my one and only life?  What’s poppin’ with Customer Case Studies?

Well, Speech-Heads: the answers to all of your questions–save the penultimate one–are here!  Check out the SpeechTEK Europe 2010 Programme!  As Eric B. would say: “This lays it down like The Ten Commandments.”

OK Speech-Heads,

SpeechTEK Europe is right around the corner and we here at Speech Tech Blog are pleased to announce the event’s 2010 Keynote Speakers.  So, check out this year’s program, register today and make note of this powerhouse lineup:

Strategist, government advisor and innovator, Charlie Leadbeater, on the phenomenon of social media creativity and the importance of customer communication and relationships.

The Future of Speech Technology Thursday, 27 May, 2010 – 09:00 – 10:00 Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Centre for AI – DFKI GmbH CEO of the German Research Center for AI, and Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, Professor Wolfgang Wahlster on the latest research findings in speech, multimodal, and multilingual technologies, and what’s about to hit the market.

Hey Speech-Heads,

If you are anything like my Speech Brother Eric B., you’re freaking out about the details of SpeechTEK Europe.  Well, here’s a quick Sneak Peak.

Although the program for is not yet in print yet, we here at Speech Tech Blog would like to offer up a preview.  To reserve your personal copy of the program, click here.

For users, SpeechTEK Europe will provide you with answer these questions/provide you with the the goods on:

• The future of speech in Europe.
• How to move into new markets.
• Can voice biometrics really validate users?
• Does advanced speech recognition work, and at what cost?
• How can analytics improve your understanding of what your customers are doing?
• Should you run your speech applications on your own servers, or have them hosted by a hosting company?
• How will evolving standards affect the development of new applications?

For developers, SpeechTEK Europe will answer these questions/deliver you with information about:

• How to use voice biometrics
• How to design and implement multimodal applications
• How to manage speech recognition errors
• How will unified communications affect your enterprise?
• How to test and fine-tune speech applications
• What are new uses of text-to-speech synthesis?
• What are the latest technology advances in speech technologies?

Hey Speech-Heads,

A few weeks ago, I posed the news about the upcoming SpeechTEK Europe.

Well today I got a Special Message from My Once And Future Speech Brother Eric B.

SpeechTEK Europe is still on.  But the dates have changed.  The conference is now scheduled for Ma 26th and 27th of 2010 in Merry Old London!

Be There or Be Square!

From time to time, my Speech Brother Eric B. and I are awed, amazed, and stupefied by the World of Speech Technology.  And today is one of those times.

We just received word from The Powers That Be, that the premier Speech Technology Conference–the one, the only SpeechTEK–is going to EUROPE!

Check out this announcement and this site for all the details!

If SpeechTEK 09 was any indication, SpeechTEK Europe is going to be amazing!  My Speech Brother Eric B. tells me it will be just like this: