David L Thomson VP Speech Technology CaptionCall

For 33 years, David Thomson has developed and managed software and algorithm creation for speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech compression, and voice biometrics.  He has managed speech R&D for voice interface systems that have handled over 20 billion calls. He recently joined CaptionCall, a company that uses speech recognition to provide communication services for the hard of hearing.  He previously served as Vice President of Speech Research at Interactions, LLC, Speech Research Director at AT&T Labs, Lucent Speech Solutions CTO, Fonix Corp. CTO, SpeechPhone Inc. CTO, and SpinVox Inc. (now Nuance) Speech Technology SVP.  He has 11 patents and 30 published speech technology papers.

Monday, April 29, 2019

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

C105: Innovative Applications of Speech Technology From Academia

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD202: Tuesday Knowledge Café

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

B204: PANEL: Innovative Applications of Speech Technology From Academia

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

STKU-6: Recent Deep Neural Net (DNN) Advances in Speech

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

STKU-5: Deep Neural Networks in Speech Recognition

Thursday, May 26, 2016

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

STKU-4: Deep Neural Networks in Speech Recognition

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

D201: How Statistical Language Models Work

Monday, August 17, 2015

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

C101: Humans as Speech Recognizers

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

D103: Recent Deep Neural Net Techniques for Speech Recognition

Monday, August 18, 2014

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

SD101: Pitfalls in measuring speech recognition accuracy

Monday, August 19, 2013

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

D105: Dynamically Reconfigurable Statistical Language Models

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	D203: New Approaches to Dialogue Management
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	D205: Case Study 4: Managing Call Center Changes

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	D301: Innovative Uses of Speech Technology
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	D302: Improving Speech Input

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

C304: Toward Anthropomorphic Systems

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

C205: Testing Strategies

Monday, August 24 2009

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

C102: Models of Dialog Management

Tuesday, August 25 2009

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

A202: Balancing Automation and Agent Interactions

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

D203: Multimedia in the Call Center

Monday, August 18

2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

C104: Advanced Dialogue's Growing Sophistication

Tuesday, August 19

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

D204: Speech in Government/Utilities

Monday, August 20

1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	E103: New Language Specifications
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	E104: Which Tools Are Right for You?

Tuesday, August 21

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

B204: Watch Your Grammar