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Interchangeable Modalities W3C Workshop on MultiModal Interaction 22-23 July 2013, New York Background: iSpeech is a Text-to-Speech & Speech Recognition Company Enterprise Enterprise Mobile, Auto, Home, & Fast growing list of

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Interchangeable Modalities

W3C Workshop on MultiModal Interaction

22-23 July 2013, New York

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Background: iSpeech is a Text-to-Speech & Speech Recognition Company

Developer s

15,000+ devs in 12 months, 2x growth of

Enterprise

Fast growing list of Mobile, Auto, Home and Publishing Customers

Consumers

30+ million app downloads

Developer Experience

25,000+ developers

Enterprise

Mobile, Auto, Home, & Publishing Customers

Consumer Experience

30+ million app downloads

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Credibility: Developer Ecosystem

> 25K developers registered > 2 billion API calls serviced > 99.9% uptime .

Mobile Devs Mobile OEM/OS Auto Home Publishing

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Speech: New Frontiers

2 Mobile/Nav 1 Entertainment 3 eLearning 4 Telephony

Growth Following New Use Cases

Breakdown of Developers by Segment & Activity

Developers API Usage

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Challenges of Speech Technology

  • Many technologists have never ‘experienced’

working directly with speech technologies

  • Uncharted Technology Waters: Audio DSP, NLP,

Domain/Grammar/Lexicon, Multimodal UI

  • Speech mirrors humans; more like ‘wetware’

than ‘software’?

  • Life-cycle of continuous adaptations and QA
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Consideration: Speech Technology Value Chain

ASR NLP TTS

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Standards & HTLM5

  • 25,000 Developers X 10 ways to package

web services (APIs and SDKs) And that’s just

Cloud, dozens more embedded engines to account

  • HTML5 adoption – audio playback of TTS
  • k, audio recording (ASR) not widely used
  • Example: impact of mature standards on

use of Speech Technology: VoiceXML, SSML, SRGS, MRCP

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Talkz™ Case Study

  • Talkz - successor to Drivesafe.ly
  • Interchangeable Multimodal App
  • Available today through iTunes
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Section 508 1998 2000 Windows Narrator VoiceOver Mac OS X 2005 2006 YouTube Captions 1st Accesible Smart- phone 2009 2013 Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII)

Multi-Modal’s Silver Lining : Universal Accessibility

“The gap between usability and accessibility is narrowing and with it the digital divide between disabled and non-disabled people.” - Robin Christopherson, AbilityNet

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Conclusions for Multi-Modal Developers

  • Plan to Partner & Partner to Plan
  • Multimodal is a CENTRAL UI pillar,

not an after thought

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Craig Campbell Chief Evangelist ccampbell@iSpeech.org

www.iSpeech.org/developers