TechSeminar #13 - 12/2/2008 - Arabic Speech Recognition

The beginning of a new year is always a busy time. I hope it started in the right direction for all of you! This year, we have plans to enlarge the scope of the OC TechSeminar, with a little help from our friends and partners. More on that later, but for now we are happy to announce an exciting topic that should be of interest to many of you.

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

Speech recognition is the most natural human interface to work with computers and mobiles, we will present a technology overview of existing speech recognition technology focusing on Arabic language and its applications and future trends and impacts.

THE PRESENTER

Dr. Maged Nofal has more than 13 years of experience in the fields of Arabic speech recognition and Arabic text to speech. He holds a Bachelor's, Masters and PhD degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Ain Shams University. He has established NesrSoft, a company specialized in embedded Arabic speech recognition. He also worked in companies like Lucent, IBM, Sakhr, ITWorx and ITSoft.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Speech recognition technology overview
• Definitions of speech recognition technology
• Applications of speech recognition
  • Existing technologies
  • Products
• Future trends

Attached to this article is the Adobe Acrobat file of the presentation.

SESSION TIME AND PLACE

The session will take place next Tuesday, February 12th 2008, starting 6:30pm *sharp* at OpenCraft. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

See you all there!

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Nesrsoft Technology Overview-OpenCraft.pdf	1.61 MB