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Welcome to the Voice Search Conference

Attend the 2009 Voice Search Conference in San Diego, California on March 2-4, 2009.

Keynote talk from Yahoo!

New! -- The Voice Search Wars

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Voice Search 2009 is the second year of a conference organized by the non-profit Applied Voice Input Output Society (AVIOS) and Bill Meisel (president, TMA Associates, editor, Speech Strategy News) to address the disruptive role of speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and multimodal user interfaces in mobile and Web applications. Voice Search 2009 addresses the disruptive role of speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and multimodal user interfaces in mobile, Web, and call center applications. In the past, application effectiveness was often compromised in order to aid the speech technology; today, the technology has advanced to the point where user requirements can dominate a design. The paradigm shift is having dramatic competitive impacts in many product and service categories.

Voice Search can find information quickly by a spoken request. In a mobile environment, Voice Search helps address the limitations of a small device for text entry. It creates the option of a uniform user interface executed within the network and largely (or entirely) independent of the specific device.

On the Web, Voice Search can allow audio or video files containing speech, including podcasts or video clips, to be searched by content. A text inquiry can not only find relevant content on the Web, but the location in that audio file where keywords were spoken.

Voice Search makes voice and text more interchangeable. For example, voicemail can be transcribed and stored as text for easy scanning and retrieval. Voice Search 2008 will highlight the wide range of applications that the maturing of speech recognition and text-to-speech technology make possible.

The conference emphasizes the business impact of Voice Search, both in terms of the opportunities it creates for vendors and the resources available to contact centers and service providers to take advantage of the commercial opportunities created. Business models such as ad-supported, pay-by-use, and subscription services will be discussed and contrasted.

Notes on the last Voice Search Conference