Great catch Deborah, I saw a lot of thinks like that and if your are thinking in Spanish is even worst, you need to have a very good idea of your final...
Hello! Just joined the group... As long as we're discussing variations on the Theme... Here in New Mexico, we have Mexican Spanish speakers, Spanish- ...
Hi, We are looking for a VUI contractor to work on one or more speech projects for large enterprise customers starting in July / August time frame. The...
hello, My name is Elizabeth Madrigal, recently I moved Dallas, Texas, I have experience in VUID and developing IVR with speech recognition and multilingual...
Hi Vuids: What techniques and grammars work best for acquiring first and last names (like airline reservations)? I know straight spelling can be problematic ...
In Denmark there is an automatic number information ("yellow pages") produced by TDC (the largest Danish telecom). They solve this by asking questions one at a...
A couple more suggestions based on whether or not you have a repository of names: 1) If you have one, you could narrow down the search space by asking the...
I would be interested in hearing from people on this list, what they consider the definition of a "Speech Scientist", what roles that person would play, and...
Actually, this is my title, and I think it is really geeky (sigh). Among other things, a speech scientist should be able to do: 1) grammar design & coding; 2)...
I'll throw in a slightly different spin. I agree that speech scientists need skills 1, 2, 3, and 5, as well as programming abilities, but VUI design is a...
I agree with Philip here. A number of people may be good at both VUI design and speech engineering, a few people can be talented at both, but very few are...
My 2 cents: I believe that the term “speech scientist” came from the early organization of companies such as SpeechWorks (and I guess Nuance also) which...
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Here's a description of a job posted today. Note that UI design skills are a requirement. I think that as a Speech Engineer, if you don't understand UI...
I think "Speech Engineer" and "Speech Scientist" are intended to be two different and distinct roles - possibly some overlap, but not two names for the same...
I working for a company called JACENT TECHNOLOGIES in Santa Clara - automated order taking and processing. http://www.jacent.com. We are looking for a Senior...
The Speech Scientists I work with at IBM tend to work more closely with the Grammars, the Lexicon, Acoustic model and parameters within the speech recognition...
While what Mr. Stallings says is true, and I do agree that these are often the duties of a speech scientist, I have still found that most of the list he...
Hello everyone, I am designing a voice interface for an embedded application with a fixed vocabulary. I am looking for different ways to represent the ...
If your customer is a telephony expert, flow charts may do fine. However, I would suggest: - At least create a number of example dialogues which you can then...
Apptera is building some exciting new products, and we need a VUI designer to help us keep up with our heavy customer-driven workload. We would like to hire...
Not to get all semantic on you, but the first line of my posting contains the line "building ... new products" and then refers to customer engagements. The ...
Not to get all see-through-the-typical-corporate-speak on you, but after 13 years of this stuff, "customer-driven" IVR "products" are almost always custom. :-)...
[Apologies if you are receiving this more than once] Final Call for participation AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue...
Hi, At the moment I am living in Dallas, Texas and I am looking for work, I have developing experience of IVR, but specially in design of VUI multilingual ...
A couple corrections - the new submission dates are E-mail submissions by July 24th, and we'll notify everyone by July 27th - again the idea is to be inclusive...
Jim Larsen and myself are hosting a workshop Monday during SpeechTEK to identify the "Top 10" VUI dialog design challenges that exist today, and to see what we...