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USA Meetings Calendar
27 Nov-2 Dec
2008
28 July - 1 Aug
154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana (note Tuesday through Saturday) [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (Quintennial meet- ing of ICBEN, the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise). Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT [Jerry V. Tobias, ICBEN 9, Post Office Box 1609, Groton CT 06340-1609, Tel. 860-572-0680; Web: www.icben.org. Email icben2008@att.net
2006
17-21 Sept. 28 Nov-2 Dec
2007
4–8 June
INTERSPEECH 2006 (ICSLP 2006), Pittsburgh, PA [www.interspeech2006.org <http://www.interspeech2006.org/>]
152nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America joint with the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
6,920,425
43.72.Ne VISUAL INTERACTIVE RESPONSE SYSTEM AND METHOD TRANSLATED FROM INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE FOR TELEPHONE UTILITY
Craig A. Will and Wayne N. Shelley, assignors to Nortel Networks Limited
19 July 2005 „Class 704Õ275...; filed 16 May 2000
The patent describes several modes of telephone/computer interactions using different languages, particularly the voice-enabled adaptations of XML. The server includes the ability to translate between voice-control scripts and visual scripts, allowing inputs in either modality to perform the mode switch. Command parsing is discussed, although not in great detail. The patent hits a new low in figure quality. Perhaps the assignee is having problems we don’t know about.—DLR
56 Acoustics Today, July 2006