http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com Self-service phone applications in and around Belgium Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:57:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en See the VoiceBioCon website. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=94 The third and last day of the Emerging Communications Conference in Mountain View, CA focused in on innovation. Keynote speaker and Chief Analyst Martin Geddes from STL Partners had no trouble convincing the audience that the telco companies need to reinvent themselves as providers of data logistics services. By providing a frictionless platform in-between upstream organizational ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=93 On day two of the Emerging Communications Conference 2008, multiple speakers focused on the topic of (lack of) openness, in its various forms. Google's Group Manager of Mobile Platforms Rich Miner explained Android's goal of taking away constraints that hamper innovation across the mobile application stack. To bridge the gap between low-level ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=92 I'm in Mountain View, California for the Emerging Communications Conference, where 300 - almost exclusively male - people have gathered to discuss the next innovation waves in telco land. Like many innovations, this conference itself is born out of frustration. Frustration with US telcos concentrating on selling cheap minutes. Frustration with European mobile operators ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=91 I just made my reservation for eComm2008 which takes place on March 12-14 in the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, California. From the website: "eComm™ is a brand new telecom event for those interested in radical innovation and seizing the next opportunity wave." Yeehaa! Or, as a former Belgian prime minister ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=90 On the 12th of February the Belgian speech technology industry gathered in the Belgacom Towers for the second edition of the ContactCentres.be seminar "Speech Technology: Customer Experiences in Belgium". Apart from seminar host Belgacom, the event was also sponsored by Acapela, DBScape, Genesys, NextiraOne, Nuance, Quentris and The Ring Ring Company. Chairman Alain Rondenbosch ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=89 From the Plugg website: "Plugg is a one day conference focused on raising global awareness for European start-ups in the Web / Mobile 2.0 field."  I'll be there. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=88 See the Vocal Expo website. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=87 See the Stepstone job ad. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=86 According to a survey conducted by Unisys in seven European countries, 89% of the Belgian interviewees find "[it is] acceptable for a trusted organization such as [a] bank, credit card provider, health care provider or governmental organization to use biometrics such as [their] voice or fingerprints to verify [their] identity". The ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=85 Next month, the ContactCentres.be Speech Technology Workgroup organizes its second half-day seminar on "Speech Applications: Customer Experiences in Belgium". The first edition in November 2006 already attracted a sizeable audience, so to accommodate the expected larger turnout the organizers chose as new venue Belgacom Towers, next to Brussels North Station. The event takes place on Tuesday Feb. ... http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=84 See the Linguist List job ad. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=83 CLIN (Computational LInguistics in the Netherlands) 2007 will be held next Friday December 7 at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=82 See the Stepstone job ad. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=81 For all information, see the conference website. http://blog.prompt-speechapps.com/?p=80