Program schedule subject to change
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08:30 - 09:15
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Networking & Registration
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09:15 - 10:00
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Welcome Remarks
- Prof. Ami Moyal, President, Afeka
- Dr. Irit Opher, Conference Chairman, Afeka
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Opening Lecture - Industry Perspective
Barak Eilam, CEO, NICE Systems
"Speech Technologies Between Enterprises and Consumers - a Solution or a Liability?" |
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10:00 - 11:00
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Keynote
Prof. Hynek Hermansky, Director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, John Hopkins University, USA
"Dealing with Irrelevant Variability in Speech"
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11:00 - 11:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:30 - 12:30
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Technology Session
- "Speech to SMS Conversion Based on Specific Domain Language Modeling"
Michael Harash, Ben Gurion University & Ilan Shallom, Audiocodes
- "Improving Speaker Verification using PCA for Dimensionality Reduction"
Itshak Lapidot, Ilya Shapiro, ACLP, Afeka
- "A Hybrid System for Keyword Spotting in Security Applications"
Victoria Mazo, et al, NICE Systems.
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12:30 - 14:00
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00 - 15:00
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Keynote
Prof. Richard Rose, McGill University, Canada
"Knowing Your Neighborhood - Manifold Based Acoustic Modeling in Speech Processing"
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15:00 - 16:00
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Industry Session
- "Distributed and Ad-hoc Microphone Array Noise Reduction"
Vered Bar Bracha, Intel Communication and Device Group
- "Spoken Dialog in Automotive"
Eli Tzirkel, General Motors Advanced Technical Center
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16:00 - 16:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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16:30 - 18:30
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Workgroups
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