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We have launched a local chapter in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area.

The goal of local AVIOS chapters is to create opportunity for people with interest in speech technology to meet, network, and stay abreast of new developments in the area, by holding quarterly or semi-annual meetings.

Our local chapter plan is to get together at different sites, to meet, mingle, and network with other speech technology professionals in our area. The host site will provide soft drinks and snacks. We hope to have two short presentations at each event, one with a speech technology bent; the other with more of a speech marketing or business focus.

You are cordially invited to participate in the AVIOS-NY/NJ/CT Chapter

There is no admission fee, but you must RSVP to confirm that you will be attending. Please contact Sara Basson to confirm (sbasson@us.ibm.com)
(The building room coordinator sent me the following, so please comply:
"24 hours before the event a complete list of attendees, their company, and their email has to be submitted so NY has time to enter into their security system. No admittance if you’re not on the submitted list. "

Announcing our next AVIOS speech technology local chapter meeting:
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Microsoft
1290 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10104-0101

This will be a "mini Voice Search" event. The Voice Search conference (co-sponsored by AVIOS) was held in San Diego in February 2009. We are leveraging some of the "local talent" that presented at Voice Search to give abbreviated versions of their presentations at this AVIOS NY/NJ/CT meeting.

We will have speech-savvy speakers, and time for networking.

Presentations:
Roberto Pieraccini, Chief Technology Officer at SpeechCycle: Multi-Modal/Multi-Channel Enterprise Voice Search: The Future of Customer Care

Jay Wilpon, Executive Director of Speech Research at AT&T: Mash it up! – A speech mashup framework for mobile voice search

Johan Schalkwyk, Senior Staff Engineer, Google - Challenges and solutions in voice search technology

Michael Greene, Technology Analyst, Council of Senior Centers and Services of NY - Enhancing accessibility and personalization through senior friendly design

About the Speakers:

Roberto Pieraccini, Chief Technology Officer at SpeechCycle, uses his broad advanced speech research experience to assist creating the world’s most advanced phone-based speech product with continuous innovation in data-driven machine leaning for interactive systems. He has worked at prestigious research labs such as CSELT, Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, and IBM T.J. Watson Research, led an R&D team at SpeechWorks, and he has written more than 100 papers and articles.

Johan Schalkwyk has worked in the Speech Industry for over 15 years. Johan is the one of principal architects behind the Google Speech Recognizer, and spearheaded the push for open ended speech recognition for mobile devices. Google VoiceSearch is the culmination of these efforts.

Jay Wilpon is Executive Director of Speech Research at AT&T. He is the leader for many innovative voice enabled services, including the world’s first spoken language understanding service – AT&T’s “How May I Help You”. Altogether, Jay’s work has resulted in billions of dollars of savings and revenue growth. He has authored over 90 publications, and was honored as IEEE Fellow and AT&T Fellow for his work in speech technologies and services

Michael Greene: Five years ago I had the good fortune of being laid off from the company I'd worked at for two decades. I went back to school for a masters in social work and now work directly with children, consult on technology to senior-service organizations, often ponder and occasionally publish about better human-computer interfaces.