Speech Technology

Dr. Chen is an associate professor at the Computing Science Department, ChalmersUniversity of Sweden. She has been working in Human Factors and Ergonomicsresearch for over 20 years and has published over 20 papers in the cognitive sciencespecially related to speech technology application. Chen has over 20 years teaching andresearch experience on ergonomics, human factors and human-computer interaction.She has been teaching on human cognition, human-computer interaction, usability anduser-centered design, and research methodology in undergraduate and graduate level. Inthe past 8 years, her research interests in focused on speech and multimodal interactiondesign in different applications.Dr. Jokinen is a Professor of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. Shehas played a leading role in several academic and industrial research projectsconcerning spoken dialogue systems, cooperative communication, adaptation, andmultimodality. She has published a large number of articles and papers, organized manyworkshops in major international workshops, and given several invited talks andseminars. She is the secretary of the SIGDial, the ISCA/ACL Special Interest Group forDiscourse and Dialogue.

• History and Development of Speech Recognition.- Challenges in Speech Synthesis.- Spoken Language Dialogue Models.- The Industry of Spoken-Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications.- Deceptive Speech: Clues from Spoken Language.- Cognitive Approaches to Spoken Language Technology.- Expressive Speech Processing and Prosody Engineering: An Illustrated Essay on the Fragmented Nature of Real Interactive Speech.- Interacting with Embodied Conversational Agents.- Multimodal Information Processing for Affective Computing.- Spoken Language Translation.- Application of Speech Technology in Vehicles.- Spoken Dialogue Application in Space: The Clarissa Procedure Browser.- Military Applications: Human Factors Aspects of Speech-Based Systems.- Accessibility and Design for All Solutions Through Speech Technology.- Assessment and Evaluation of Speech-Based Interactive Systems: From Manual Annotation to Automatic Usability Evaluation.