SpeechTEK Labs Will Give Attendees the Opportunity to Sample the Latest Products

Business Wire, August 6, 2008

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Gamers are putting their controllers down to try the latest innovation in video games: automated voice commands. Video games are among the newest speech technology applications that will be on display at SpeechTEK 2008, Speech in the Mainstream, at the New York Marriott Marquis August 18-20.

For the first time ever, SpeechTEK will host hands-on labs featuring innovations in gaming, tools for developers and multimodal applications.

SpeechTEK Labs will give attendees the opportunity to get hands-on experiences with new tools, applications and devices, talk to developers and interact with an expert panel that will be rating the new products.

SpeechTEK released the Lab schedule today. The Labs will be a part of the SpeechTEK Expo and located on the exhibit hall floor:

Tuesday, August 19, 10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Tools for Developers Lab moderated by Moshe Yudkowsky, president, Disaggregate Consulting, will feature a variety of competing and complementary tools for the entire development process from coding through final testing.

Tuesday, August 19, 1:45 - 3:30 PM,

Nuance enhances the gaming experience by providing developers with speech recognition, Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation, text-to-speech and speaker verification. The Voice-Activated Games Lab, moderated by David Thomson, CTO, SpeechPhone, features several electronic games that have been voice-activated using Nuance technology. Attendees can try out the games firsthand and see how speech technologies make games more exciting, realistic, and easy to play.

Wednesday, August 20, 10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Multimodal Applications Lab moderated by Deborah Dahl, principal, Conversational Technologies, will demonstrate how voice can be combined with other input modalities to dramatically enhance the capabilities and usability of applications.

A detailed agenda including session descriptions and registration information for SpeechTEK University and the entire SpeechTEK conference is available at www.speechtek.com.

For information about SpeechTEK contact Sheila Willison, 859-278-2223.

About SpeechTEK

Launched in 1995, SpeechTEK Expositions and Educational Conferences (www.speechtek.com) are recognized worldwide as the industry's premier events focusing on products, services, applications, solutions and innovations using speech technologies. The trade show and educational conference attracts a global network of speech technology providers and enterprise network customers who are developing and implementing speech solutions.

About Information Today

Information Today is the parent company of SpeechTEK and Speech Technology Magazine. Information Today, Inc. (ITI) is a leading publisher and conference organizer in the information and knowledge management industries. The company is widely known as the publisher of premier information and knowledge management titles such as Information Today, Computers in Libraries, ONLINE, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, CRM, Searcher, KMWorld, and EContent. ITI is also the sponsor and organizer of many industry conferences, including WebSearch University, KMWorld & Intranets, Internet Librarian, Computers in Libraries, Enterprise Search Summit, and Streaming Media.