Thursday, October 23, 2008

At the end of the last century, the landscape of speech applications was abruptly changed due to the convergence of several factors: the maturity of speech technologies and the advent of standards and platforms.The talk will give a clear picture of the current status of technologies and platforms in use in today speech applications and highlights of the trends of evolution.

Speaker: Paolo Baggia, Director of International Standards, Loquendo

About the Speaker:Paolo Baggia is currently Director of International Standards of Loquendo and actively involved in W3C and the VoiceXML Forum, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. Formerly, he lead the VoiceXML browser development for Loquendo's VoxNauta platform. In 1989, he joined CSELT, Telecom Italia's R lab, and was involved in several research activities, including natural language, speech parsing, spoken dialog design, and language modeling. In 1999, he took part in a large-scale speech application: the automation of TreniItalia railway company's call centers. He holds a degree in computer science from the Università di Torino.



Thursday, October 16, 2008

Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management,Pune

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Something about Telecom and SITM,Pune:

National Telecom Seminar at Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management,Pune:





Telstra's CEO Sol Trujillo told the CommsDay Summit that Australia must think very carefully about its policy and investment settings as it prepares for the rapidly approaching Gigabit Future. In his keynote speech, Sol Trujillo said that FTTN was crucial to Australia's future, but that it was just a part - albeit an essential part - of an infrastructure ecosystem that only Telstra could deliver.





Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell speculates on the future of the telecom industry with two of UCSD's leading authorities in the field: Peter Cowhey, Dean of UCSD's School of International Relations/Pacific Studies and an expert in telecom regulation and policy; and Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology





The biggest student endeavour by the students of Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management to bring the stalwarts from the telecom industry on a common platform to discuss about the most contemporary anfd relevant issues surrounding the telecom arena..