A company that installs a speech recognition system immediately has an automated way for hundreds of millions of telephone users to communicate with the company. The conference will bring together the world's leading managers, developers, experts and investors in speech recognition and computer telephony, to explore the impact of speech recognition on telephony and its markets. The conference is presented by TMA Associates and The Wichita Group. Principal sponsors include Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Unisys, Nuance Communications and Voice Control Systems. Speech Recognition Update is the publication sponsor.
Callers can do new things with their phones.
Various applications allow callers to get stock quotes, have e-mail read to them, make travel reservations, request movie times, and much, much more. Experts in the field no longer are questioning whether speech recognition is ready for prime time. They agree that the technology has been developed to the point where 1999 will be the year when speech recognition will impact our lives in a major way. The first exposure that most people will have to it is through the telephone. In addition to core technology sessions on various aspects of telephony speech recognition, the conference will also feature special sessions looking at the market status and opportunities, industry trends and the business case for speech recognition.