Speech Technology eWeekly - October 16, 2019

Q & A

Q&A: Dr. Nava Shaked on Evaluation, Testing Methodology & Best Practices for Speech-Based Interaction Systems

Get a sneak-peak into Dr. Nava Shaked's SpeechTEK workshop in this Q&A. Learn everything you need to know about evaluation, testing, and best practices for speech-based interactions.

Q&A: Dr. Michael McTear on Building a Conversational Chatbot for Google Assistant Using Dialogflow

Get a sneak-peek of Dr. Michael McTear's SpeechTEK workshop and learn how to build a conversational chatbot for Google Assistant using Dialogflow. Like what you see? Head over to speechtek.com.

Q&A: Bruce Balentine on the Basics of Conversational Chatbots

Conversational chatbots may be the future (or even the present) but Bruce Balentine is taking developers back to basics in his workshop at SpeechTEK in April. Learn how to build chatbots that get results.

Q&A: David Attwater on the Ins and Outs of Conversation Design

Everything you need to know about conversational design. Jim Larson talked to David Attwater, Senior Scientist, Enterprise Integration Group about his upcoming workshop, AI, and how human is too human?

Q&A: Deborah Dahl on Natural Language Understanding

Jim Larson talked to Dr. Deborah Dahl, Principal, Conversational Technologies about the increasing importance and capabilities of natural language processing, speech recognition, and

Speech Technology News

Chorus.ai’s State of Conversation Intelligence Shows What a Good Sales Call Looks Like

Chorus.ai, an conversational intelligence provider, released its twice-annual report which offers insights to help sales teams close more deals, and successfully coach employees.

The View from AVIOS

Speech Understanding: The Next Leap in Speech Recognition

Deep learning and the data that feeds it will drive speech tech's commercial use

Industry Voices

Five Must-have Speech Recognition Capabilities For the Modern Contact Center

The latest advances in speech-to-text technology enable analytics software to deliver the most accurate and complete customer insights. To do so, robust ASR solutions must be able to do five things.

Video: Detecting Deception in Speech, Pt. 2: Findings

Interactions LLC NLP Scientist Yocheved Levitan outlines the findings of a recent academic study on detecting deceptive speech and how to distinguish it from truthful speech in this clip from her presentation at SpeechTEK 2019.