11 SpeechCycle Team Members Selected to Present at the Speech Industry’s Premier Conference

SpeechCycle innovation and thought leadership recognized via invitation to participate at SpeechTEK 2008

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpeechCycle, Inc., the award-winning connected SaaS innovator for the enterprise, announced 11 representatives from SpeechCycle have been selected as presenters and panelists for the SpeechTEK Conference to be held August 18 – 20 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. SpeechTEK is an annual event that brings together enterprises, service providers, technology vendors, and integrators deploying voice recognition-based solutions. SpeechTEK is the world’s largest speech technology conference and exhibition.

“We are looking forward to contributing SpeechCycle’s thought leadership and experience gained from successfully automating millions of calls for sophisticated applications to SpeechTEK 2008.”

SpeechCycle’s speaker presence will not be exceeded by any other organization at SpeechTEK 2008. SpeechCycle presenters include:

Name	Session(s)
Dr. Jonathan Bloom	Driving the Conversation Forward
	VUI Design for Multimodal Applications
Steve Chirokas	Speech: Thinking out of the Box
Leah Eyler	Design Methodologies and Tools
Phillip Hunter	Advanced Dialog's Growing Sophistication
	Agile Speech Projects
Peter Krogh	Reverse Navigation
	How Do You Do VUI
	The Ultimate VUI Showdown
Ethan Levine	How Do you Do VUI
Dr. Jackson Liscombe	Driving the Conversation Forward
James Mesbur	Universal Commands
Karen Moyle	Universal Commands
Roberto Pieraccini	Advanced ASR; A Global Perspective
Dr. David Suendermann	How Do You Do VUI?

“Expertise ranging from the user experience to the most technical and scientific elements of voice recognition enables SpeechCycle to deliver uniquely engaging and capable Rich Phone Applications” said Zor Gorelov, CEO of SpeechCycle. “We are looking forward to contributing SpeechCycle’s thought leadership and experience gained from successfully automating millions of calls for sophisticated applications to SpeechTEK 2008.”

In conjunction with the SpeechTEK conference, SpeechCycle will be hosting the 7th Voice User Interface Workshop at their lower Manhattan headquarters on Sunday, August 17th. This year’s topic ““The Maturation of VUI: What I Wish I Knew Back Then” will serve as the discussion point for position papers submitted by top Voice User Interface (VUI) design and usability talent from a number of leading organizations. SpeechCycle participants include Philip Hunter, Jonathan Bloom and Peter Krogh.

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 SpeechCycle

SpeechCycle, the leading provider of Rich Phone Applications (RPAs), powers innovative voice-based applications for more than 50 enterprise deployments across more than 35 contact centers in North America and around the world. With hundreds of millions of minutes of phone-based user interactions processed through the SpeechCycle service to date, SpeechCycle is in the vanguard of a new generation of on-demand speech innovators, delivering strategic customer value that speaks for itself. For more information go to www.speechcycle.com.

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