Event

Speech Technology in Practice

Michael Mende

CEO, SpeechConcept

Tuesday, June 02, 2009
12:30

Here comes a presentation about speech technology in practice: See how a phone access traffic information system works. Learn how speech technology can support a call center agent even during a phone call. Listen how a synthetic voice is built and how natural it can sound. Another part of the presentation shows how speech technology solutions are being tailored to individual needs. The linguistic experts of German SpeechConcept offer the entire portfolio and the option to combine as desired. Their SpeechAgent application closes the gap between human and machine dialogues.

Bio:
Michael Mende, age 48, is computational linguist and computer scientist. Since 1989, he has been a major player in the European language technology industry. He worked for IBM for 12 years, 7 years as chief developer for voice recognition, and 5 years as chief developer for automatic translation. Later, he founded “Mende Speech Solutions GmbH & Co. KG”. Within the next 8 years, this company grew to 40 people. MSS was, until 2001, the major player in Germany’s language business, as well as the company with the highest technological competence in linguistic technology. A few years later, Michael Mende founded “SpeechConcept GmbH & Co. KG” (www.speechconcept.com).