The no-exhibits conference will bring together the world s leading managers, experts and investors in speech recognition and computer telephony, to explore the impact of speech recognition on telephony and its markets. The publication sponsor is Speech Recognition Update , the industry s newsletter. This Conference will focus on the rapid acceptance of the voice user interface, instead of the telephone keypad, as the best user interface for communicating with computers over the telephone.
Speech recognition makes a natural dialog with the caller possible.
After only one year, this Conference is already being referred to as The Industry s Leading Forum. Virtually every important company in the business will be represented this year. The Conference program organizer is Dr. William Meisel, president of TMA Associates, one of the world s leading experts in speech recognition technology, a lecturer at conferences all over the world, a consultant to the industry, publisher and editor of Speech Recognition Update , and a recognized futurist. Keynoter for the conference is Dr. Victor Zue, head of the Spoken Language Systems Group at MIT and associate director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. A key feature that gave HAL a human-like quality was its ability to communicate with humans via spoken language.