Speech Technologies Seminar 2008
July 02, 2008
Organized by IBM Haifa Research Lab
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Program
09:00 Registration
09:30 Opening Remarks
Oded Cohn, Director, IBM Haifa Research Lab
09:45 Challenges of Speech Solutions in Call Centers
Nava Shaked, Manager, CRM & Call Center, IBM Israel
10:15 Actionable Intelligence via Speech Analytics
Ofer Shochet, Senior VP, VERINT
(Presentation)
10:45 Discriminative Keyword Spotting
Joseph Keshet, IDIAP
(Presentation)
11:15 Break
11:30 Recent Advances in Speech Dereverberation
Emanuel Habets, Bar-Ilan University & Technion
(Presentation)
12:00 On Improving the Quality of Small Footprint Concatenated Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems
David Malah, Head of Signal and Image Processing Lab, Technion
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12:30 Keynote. Superhuman Speech Recognition: Technology Challenges and Market Adoption
David Nahamoo, IBM Fellow, Speech CTO and Business Strategist, IBM Watson Research Center
(Presentation)
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Using Speech Processing Technologies in Audio Search Applications
Ido Itzhaki, Director, Business Development, NSC
15:00 Intra-class Variability Modeling for Speech Processing
Hagai Aronowitz, IBM Haifa Research Lab
(Presentation)
15:30 Retrieving Spoken Information by Combining Multiple Speech Transcription Methods
Jonathan Mamou, IBM Haifa Research Lab
(Presentation)
16:00 Poster Session & Refreshments
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