At Uniprise, a UnitedHealth Group (UHG) company, our people and technology meet the benefits needs of employees and families at more than one-fourth of the ...
Steve L Eisman
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Mar 1, 2006 6:41 pm
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Hi Steve, I'm a senior VUI design consultant working out of the Boston area, with many of the skills and experience you are looking for. Let me know if you'd...
Bruce Papazian
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Mar 1, 2006 6:49 pm
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All, Angel.com has a regular stream of projects, large and small, that require VUI designer skills. If you are a VUI designer and would like us to pair you up...
Molly, I don't have hard stats, as that gets difficult to measure becuase you have to know caller intent. However, out of many usability tests I can tell you...
You know, one of the funniest things about this to me is the "secret code" stuff, as if these companies really designed in a backdoor. Fact is, many of the...
Unfortunately, that's not a lot different than the other mental model breakers because the keywords have other generic meanings that are getting co-opted. ...
I'm interested in hearing about your experiences with speech design tools that are truly focused on the designer (I'll leave that open to your interpretation)....
Molly, I've had experience during usability testing where we we have had prompts like "please say or enter your phone number", and then a little later in the ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/weekinreview/05robots.html The New York Times March 5, 2006 Ideas & Trends The Art of Building a Robot to Love By HENRY...
Hello All, Does anyone have information on independent industry (and/or academic) certification programs for VUI designers and other speech technology ...
Candace, I don't think there is really an independent body doing that. Even EIG, who is technically independent, offers everything in the context of MS. Are...
I'm not an independent VUI designer, but I think there is significant industry interest in having some sort of certification process in place (official...
I think you said 'Hawai'i' and 'Alcohol,' is that correct? It seems to me that the primary value of having a certification program is to appease business...
Hear Hear! Nothing guarantees mediocrity like standardization and certification. Walter Rolandi, Ph.D. The Voice User Interface Company, LLC 6131 Rutledge Hill...
I actually like the idea of some sort of process by which people could learn the trade, and have some basic skills sanctioned by an independent organization....
Hello everybody, The only certification that I know for speech technologies is the VoiceXML Application Developer Certification granted by the VoiceXML Forum,...
I agree with the comments on privacy...one factor is where the customer us calling from..for instance in a cube (rat maze) environment the preference tends to...
All, Two things: Angel.com is hiring aggressively across the board. If you have VUI development skills or have been involved in Speech in any capacity,...
I read it quite thoroughly when it came out one year ago and would like to recommend it. I then wrote a brief description on our web page...
Hans Dybkjær
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Mar 14, 2006 10:18 am
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Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP http://www.interspeech2006.org/ International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 17-21 September, 2006 Pittsburgh, PA, USA ...
Roberto Pieraccini
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Mar 15, 2006 3:32 am
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Hello, Just to shed some light into the original question regarding Nuance's Post-merger revamp of their old VUI Certification programs, here's the response I...
The Enterprise Integration Group (EIG) offers a Microsoft Speech Technologies Course that leads to a "certificate of completion." The title of the five day...
Bruce Papazian
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Mar 15, 2006 4:45 pm
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.and as we all know, Microsoft is the world's torch-bearer of VUI leadership. _____ From: vuids@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vuids@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ...
Precisely why EIG's service is of value. I have attended the 2 day version of the EIG workshop, and I came away much impressed. These guys really know their...
Rick Rappe
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Mar 15, 2006 9:15 pm
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You've clearly seen a different EIG presentation than I have. Advocating techniques such as limited use of barge-in, shadow prompting, and telling callers how...