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International .NET Association Pakistan Chapter, IEEE NED Student Branch and NED.net User Group wants to invite you to a Free Seminar on Building Speech Applications by Mr. Adnan Farooq Hashmi on Saturday February 12, 2005 at 2 pm at CIS Lecture Theatre, NED University. Registration is closed for this seminar, so those who haven't registered are advised to bring their NIC with them to avoid enterence issues.

Agenda

2 :00 - 2:15 pm - Introduction to Imagine Cup by Hammad Rajjoub
2:15 - 3:30 - Talk on Speech Applications by Adnan Farooq Hashmi

About Imagine Cup

Imagine Cup is a technology contest that provides an outlet for students to explore their technological and artistic interests outside the classroom. Throughout this year Imagine Cup will recognize and celebrate student achievement in technology and art. There are nine very different categories that will give every student a change to participate. The finals are in Yokohama, Japan, an intriguing and stimulating destination for the top student minds from around the world to engage in conversation, debate and competition at the Imagine Cup finals. For more information visit Imagine Cup or INETA MEA website.

About The Topic

Speech is one of the most natural way to interact. When it comes to computers it is no different. If an application can be controlled solely by way of voice commands then the opportunity that lies is unlimited. Even though the idea of using speech as an input mechanism for an application is not new there are not a lot of applications that use speech as in input. In other words speech is still an big opportunity that is yet to be explored. Microsoft speech SDK is one of the many tools that enable a developer to add speech capability in to a applications. Speech SDK can be used in either C#, C++, VB or any COM compliant language. Broadly, speech can be divided in to two paradigms. Text to speech conversion and speech recognition.

This Seminar will showcase the benefits of building and deploying Multimodal Speech Applications, and explain the concepts behind the Microsoft Speech Application SDK (SASDK) and SALT (Speech Application Language Tags). The Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) enables multimodal and telephony-enabled access to information, applications, and Web services from PCs, telephones, tablet PCs, and wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs). The Speech Application Language Tags extend existing mark-up languages such as HTML, XHTML, and XML. Multimodal access will enable users to interact with an application in a variety of ways: they will be able to input data using speech, a keyboard, keypad, mouse and/or stylus, and produce data as synthesized speech, audio, plain text, motion video, and/or graphics. Each of these modes will be able to be used independently or concurrently.

Who should attend

• Individuals who want to get a fair idea about the new concepts in speech applications

• Students/Individuals working on Speech-enabled web applications

About the Speaker

Adnan Farooq Hashmi did his MS (Software Engineering) from SZABIST in 1999, and was awarded the Gold Medal for his batch. He was co-founder of Lynx & Connexions Inc. in October 1999, and was the application architect for an Internet based utility bill payment system that involved SSGC, PTCL, and KESC in 2000. He also founded Core IT Education Centre in 2001, which has been functioning as an Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Approved Study Centre for the past 2.5 years, and working to build E-Learning tools and next-generation Learning Management Systems (LMS). He has mainly been involved in the development of Enterprise applications using Oracle, SQL Server, ASP, and ASP.NET, and has also conducted Training for Government organizations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. His focus is Academics, although he remains an avid Internet application developer.

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Hoping to see you there !!