I will be speaking at SpeechTEK 2009 in August!

Here is the abstract of my talk, entitled The Art and Science of Speech Grammar Coverage Analysis, as it appears on the conference site:

As the speech recognition grammars required by today’s applications become increasingly complex, identifying and fixing grammar coverage problems can become quite challenging. Using real-life examples, this session will provide an overview of some of the best practices and techniques for effective speech grammar debugging and coverage analysis. In particular, we will showcase tools no speech scientist should live without: an interactive sentence explorer and a sophisticated, highly customizable sentence generator.

The talk will mostly focus on the kind of problems we face when developing and maintaining speech recognition grammars for real applications (not toy problems). It will clearly demonstrate that effective tools can really help develop grammars faster, while ensuring greater quality and less maintenance hassles.

Also, this talk will be the opportunity for me to demonstrate NuGram IDE‘s improved sentence explorer and its sophisticated sentence generation tool. This is indeed very cool stuff (I can’t wait to demo them)!

See you there!