FOURTH ANNUAL TELEPHONY VOICE USER INTERFACE CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN SCOTTSDALE, AZ FEBRUARY 4-6, 2

Added: (Tue Nov 06 2001)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Tarzana, CA...William Meisel's fourth annual "Telephony Voice User Interface Conference," will be held on February 4-6, 2002 at the Marriott Mountain Shadows Resort and Golf Club in Scottsdale, AZ. The conference will bring together the world's leading managers, experts and investors in speech recognition and telephony, to explore the business opportunities created by telephone speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and Voice Web technology. Calendar editors, please add this Conference to your Calendar.

The Principal Sponsors of this conference are Enterprise Integration Group, Nuance Communications and SpeechWorks. AT&T Labs, InterVoiceBRITE, Sound Advantage, Telera, VoiceGenie and West Interactive are Supporting Sponsors. The publication sponsors are Speech Recognition Update, the industry's newsletter, and Speech Technology Magazine. The extremely wide sponsorship of this conference underscores the conference's vendor-independence. Meisel says, "If you can only go to one conference on the business potential of telephone speech recognition, this is the one to attend." Based on the comments of past attendees, the Conference is billing itself this year as "THE Independent Summit Conference - Where Trends and Partnerships Are Created."

Two Outstanding Keynotes...

Kai Fu Lee, vice president, Natural Interactive Services Division of Microsoft, and Stuart Patterson, CEO of SpeechWorks, will present keynote addresses. Lee will discuss what Microsoft is doing in the areas of natural language and speech technologies, with an emphasis on telephony. Patterson will cover the business potential for speech services. He will offer a framework for assessing the applications that will deliver the greatest ROI, as well as specific guidance on how to achieve maximum ROI from speech services as they are launched and delivered.


The Industry's Leading Forum...

The Conference is already referred to as The Industry's Leading Forum. Virtually every important company in the business will be represented this year. The conference distills the ways in which companies are saving and making money using speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and speaker verification over the telephone.

The Conference program organizer is Dr. William Meisel, president of TMA Associates, one of the world's leading experts in speech recognition technology, a consultant to the industry, publisher and editor of Speech Recognition Update, and author of influential market studies in the field. According to Dr. Meisel, "The rapid growth of our Conference during the first three years has far exceeded our expectations. The leading figures in the industry have convened from all over the world to share their insights into implications of this improvement in the telephone's user interface."

A Unique Discussion and Demo Day...

Although there will be no exhibits at the conference, the final day will be a unique Discussion and Demo Day. This will not be an exhibit hall, but simple tables where you can talk to the best-qualified company representatives, to learn more about their products and services, as well as follow up on information presented at the conference.

Further information about the conference can be found at www.tmaa.com or by calling 910/452-0047 or 818/708-0962.

Please direct all editorial inquiries and requests for Conference credentials to David Kaye at KPR, Inc. Phone: 818/368-8212 or E-mail: dave@kprinc.com.

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