Title: Introduction of Speech Interface for Mobile Information Services

Abstract: This paper will explain speech interfaces for mobile communication. Mobile interfaces have three important design rules. Do not disturb the user's main task, work within the restrictions of user's ability, and minimize the resource requirements. Social acceptance is also important. In Japan, trial and regular services with speech interfaces in mobile environments have already been launched, but they are not widely used. They must be improved in mobile interfaces. The speech interface will not replace web browsers, but should support and interwork with other interfaces. We also have to discover contents that suit speech interfaces.

Curriculum: Hirotaka Nakano is an Associate Senior Vice President of the Multimedia Laboratories of NTT DoCoMo, Inc., where he is currently in charge of mobile multimedia communication research and development. He received his B.D, M.D and Ph. D. degree from University of Tokyo in 1972, 1974 and 1977 respectively. Consecutively he joined Communications Laboratories of NTT Public Corporation (which was changed to NTT Laboratories in 1985) and had been engaged in research and development of picture and video information systems such as Videotex systems (Character and pattern based image-DB system) and video-on demand (VOD) systems. He is also interested in image input, processing and retrieval architecture for those systems.

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