(COMTEX) B: The 21st Annual AVIOS Conference Announces Best of Show Awar B: The 21st Annual AVIOS Conference Announces Best of Show Award Winners
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Board of Directors of the Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is pleased to announce the winners of the Best of Show competition at this year's AVIOS Speech Conference and the winners of the Best Paper awards. Companies winning product awards include ScanSoft, Fonix, Clarity, Phonetic Systems, ArialPhone, CoAssure, SpeechWorks and AT&T Labs. The product awards exemplify the movement of speech recognition and other speech technologies into practical applications.
The high quality of all papers and products at AVIOS is reflective of AVIOS's charter to motivate and aid the development of excellent applications of speech technology, including speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and speaker verification. Papers are available in the Conference Proceedings, which can be purchased by calling 408/328-1782, or emailing avios1@aol.com. Further information about AVIOS can be found at www.avios.org.
The Award Winners
Leon Lerman Best of Show: AT&T Labs - Natural Voices (text-to-speech) (The late Leon Lerman was the founder of AVIOS.)
Best Consumer Product: Fonix - Voice Activated PDA Best Desktop Product: ScanSoft - Dragon MediaIndexer
Best Industrial/Professional Product: Clarity - Clear Voice Capture
Best Telephony Product: Phonetic Systems - Phonetic Operator 4.0 Platform, VSE Technology
Best Peripheral Accessory: ArialPhone - ArialPhone System
Best Telephony Application Service: CoAssure - Speech Recognition Test Services
Best New TTS Product: SpeechWorks - Speechify 2.1 text-to-speech Best Paper Awards Gary Poock Best Paper Award:
Noam Fogel, PerSay, "A Commercial Implementation of a Free-Speech Speaker Verification System in a Call Center."
Student Paper Award:
Dave Gelbart, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), "Reducing the Effect of Room Acoustics on Human-Computer Interaction."
Special Recognition Paper Awards:
Larry Smith, PartnerServe Company, Inc, & Jon Bower, Beth Pilgrim, Paul Schwarz, and David Stevens, Lexia Learning Systems, "The Viability of Voice Applications for Children."
Matt Yuschik, Comverse, "Usability Testing of Voice Controlled Messaging."
About AVIOS
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society is a non-profit organization that has served the speech community for over twenty years, dedicated to improving the variety and quality of speech applications. It provides information resources, a voice for the industry and its developers, and an annual conference.
For further information, contact the AVIOS office at 408/323-1783 or check the AVIOS web site at www.avios.org.
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