Dr. Christian Dugast is the founder of tech2biz.
Christian is an expert on Language technologies: He has a 360 degree expertise in applying language technologies to various services in different market environments, including:
- Automatic Customer Communication
- Voice Services (Interactive Voice Response systems, Automatic Speech Recognition)
- Call Center / Contact Center
- Identification over the phone: Speaker Verification / Speaker Identification
- Virtual Assistants on the web
- Automatic Email Management
- Machine Translation
- Knowledge Management
Short background / history:
- PHD in Automatic Speech Recognition
- 10 years as an international scientist on speech recognition at Philips.
- Active participation at the American DARPA Evaluation programs.
- Built from scratch 2 successful LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY start-ups, Nuance Communication and VoiceObjects AG, building eco-systems of partners and evangelizing the market.
Professional and Academic Activities:
World's first public presentation of a commercial dictation system that supported natural and fluent speech input - EuroSpeech '93, Berlin
Business Addresses and Moderations
Since 1996 regular speaker and moderator at conferences such as
- SpeechTek (1996,2005,2006)
- VoiceEurope (1996,1997,1998)
- CT-Expo Los Angeles (1996)
- AVIOS (2003,2004,2005,2006)
- Marcus Evans conferences (2000,2001,2005)
- Call Center Forum Conferences (2008, 2010 with flyer)
- Mailing Tage (2010 + Program)
Technology and Scientific Talks and Moderations
Speaker and chairman at scientific conferences such as:
- DARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S.), predecessor of DARPA (1993,1994,1995)
- ICASSP, International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (1992,1993,1994,1995)
- EuroSpeech, European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (1991,1993,1995)
Honors:
- Member of the AVIOS Board (Applied Voice Input/Output Society) from 2002 to 2007
- The city of Toulouse prize for his thesis on Speech Recognition in 1984
- Expert and rapporteur of the European Union in Language technologies
- Evaluator of the Smart Service Award
Public Profiles of Dr. Christian Dugast:
LinkedIn profile
Xing Profile
Various links to Articles:
International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Papers:
Click here for links to references to ICASSP papers from Dugast
European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech) Papers:
Click here for links to references made to EuroSpeech papers from Dugast
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) benchmarking workshops:
Click here for a list of references made to papers produced by Dugast for (D)ARPA Workshops
Conference and Exhibition SpeechTek:
Click here for a list of references made to presentations made by Christian Dugast at SpeechTek