Voice/Audio Internet: Accessing the Internet by any phone and your voice - surf any website, search any word(s), do email, conduct e-commerce and more..
Dr. Emdad Khan is president and CEO of InternetSpeech
Date: Wednesday,
21 September 2005
Time: 6:30pm - refreshments, 7:00pm - talk
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions),
Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership
is only $10/year.
Topic: The need for Interacting with Internet & electronic contents is rapidly growing; but only 14% market is served today mainly because of (a) Lack of computer or computer skills, (b) Access through a personal device is difficult, visual, and expensive. In contrast, Voice/Audio Internet allows accessing the Internet, Intranet and other special sources by using the most natural user interface, voice and the most ubiquitous device, phone, and is becoming more and more important and popular as such approach solves most of the problems mentioned above, thus enabling everybody with any phone to enjoy the benefits of the Internet, and hence very effectively bridging the Digital and Language Divides.
The key problem in Voice Internet is "how to efficiently render visual Internet contents into short, precise, easily navigable, meaningful and pleasant to listen to audio". The rendering problem is very complex as the Internet sites were designed with visual access in mind and the information is laid out in a manner that is attractive to our eyes but not to our ears.
In this talk we will discuss the key technologies used for Voice Internet, how an Intelligent Agent is used to solve the "rendering" problem, current status and future directions for both technology and potential business using core "Voice Internet rendering" technology.
About the Speaker: Dr. Emdad Khan is president and CEO of InternetSpeech. He founded the company in 1998 with the vision to develop innovative technology for accessing information on the Internet anytime, anywhere, using just an ordinary telephone and the human voice.
As a pioneer in the Internet voice space, Khan is a frequent speaker at voice-recognition, Internet application and other industry trade shows and conferences. He holds 14 patents and has published more than 40 papers on the advent of voice technology on the Internet, neural nets, fuzzy logic, intelligent systems, VLSI and optics. Khan’s acute technical knowledge and keen understanding of emerging markets has played an important role in the development of InternetSpeech’s first product/service netECHO, the only product available today that delivers complete voice Internet access.
During his career, Khan invented, defined, developed and deployed worldwide new intelligent software products for micro-controller-based home appliances. He has also created and deployed speech recognition Internet applications. He has 24 years of experience with large semi-conductor companies, including Intel and National.
Khan has taught courses at universities and industry conferences on VLSI, neural net and fuzzy logic. He holds a doctorate in computer science, master of science degrees in electrical engineering and engineering management and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.