About speaker

Daniel Fitzpatrick

Frank Reply

Manager

Moving from lithography into the digital world, Dan started designing and programming user interfaces back in 1999. Today, along with Dr. Tillmann Pross, he leads Frank Reply GmbH – the Reply expert team for Conversational AI. This still doesn’t stop him from programming voice interfaces and researching related technologies! Furthermore, as Practice Lead, he heads a worldwide think tank for Voice Machine Interfaces at Reply AG.

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Day 51 (10/1)

6:00 – 16:00
thu 1 day 1
6:00 – 9:00
Workshop
AI/ML Intermediate

Conscious Cars – Crafted Conversations

Daniel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Fitzpatrick Manager at Frank Reply
Maria Müller
Maria Müller Senior Conversational UX Architect at Frank Reply
Speaker Name
Speaker Name Principal Consultant at @Visible Flow Consulting
Conversational AI Conversational User Experience LLM Product

SHORT DESC. This session is a deep-dive into the special challenges which confront programmers and conversational designers when architecting in-vehicle speech interfaces. We will give an overview of the different cognitive needs of drivers as compared to users of other voice-driven applications. After that, we will discuss the specific use cases and associated syntactical and semantical approaches for delivering the right experience. Lastly, we’ll give a glimpse into the future, where conversational AI will play a dominating role over conventional speech architectures. In particular, we’ll touch on the challenges of transitioning from rule-based intent matrices towards LLM-driven intent recognition.

Most drivers (and almost all consumers) use speech interfaces every day.
This session is quite innovative, because it offers a detailed inspection “under the hood”, which gives insights into the complicated processes and expertise necessary to provide effective in-vehicle speech applications!
Insights will be given into:
– The specific role of the in-car assistant
– How vehicle outputs must adapt to widely differing contexts
– Multi-intent management and AI speech architecture
– Types of vehicle prompts and their special challenges

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thu 1 day 1
10:00 – 12:00
Talk
AI/ML Intermediate

Conscious Cars – Crafted Conversations

Daniel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Fitzpatrick Manager at Frank Reply
Maria Müller
Maria Müller Senior Conversational UX Architect at Frank Reply
Speaker Name
Speaker Name Principal Consultant at @Visible Flow Consulting
Conversational AI Conversational User Experience LLM Product

SHORT DESC. This session is a deep-dive into the special challenges which confront programmers and conversational designers when architecting in-vehicle speech interfaces. We will give an overview of the different cognitive needs of drivers as compared to users of other voice-driven applications. After that, we will discuss the specific use cases and associated syntactical and semantical approaches for delivering the right experience. Lastly, we’ll give a glimpse into the future, where conversational AI will play a dominating role over conventional speech architectures. In particular, we’ll touch on the challenges of transitioning from rule-based intent matrices towards LLM-driven intent recognition.

Most drivers (and almost all consumers) use speech interfaces every day.
This session is quite innovative, because it offers a detailed inspection “under the hood”, which gives insights into the complicated processes and expertise necessary to provide effective in-vehicle speech applications!
Insights will be given into:
– The specific role of the in-car assistant
– How vehicle outputs must adapt to widely differing contexts
– Multi-intent management and AI speech architecture
– Types of vehicle prompts and their special challenges

Read more →
thu 1 day 1
11:00 – 13:30
Talk
AI/ML Intermediate

Conscious Cars – Crafted Conversations (Copy)

Daniel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Fitzpatrick Manager at Frank Reply
Maria Müller
Maria Müller Senior Conversational UX Architect at Frank Reply
Speaker Name
Speaker Name Principal Consultant at @Visible Flow Consulting
Conversational AI Conversational User Experience LLM Product

SHORT DESC. This session is a deep-dive into the special challenges which confront programmers and conversational designers when architecting in-vehicle speech interfaces. We will give an overview of the different cognitive needs of drivers as compared to users of other voice-driven applications. After that, we will discuss the specific use cases and associated syntactical and semantical approaches for delivering the right experience. Lastly, we’ll give a glimpse into the future, where conversational AI will play a dominating role over conventional speech architectures. In particular, we’ll touch on the challenges of transitioning from rule-based intent matrices towards LLM-driven intent recognition.

Most drivers (and almost all consumers) use speech interfaces every day.
This session is quite innovative, because it offers a detailed inspection “under the hood”, which gives insights into the complicated processes and expertise necessary to provide effective in-vehicle speech applications!
Insights will be given into:
– The specific role of the in-car assistant
– How vehicle outputs must adapt to widely differing contexts
– Multi-intent management and AI speech architecture
– Types of vehicle prompts and their special challenges

Read more →
thu 1 day 1
15:00 – 16:00
Workshop
AI/ML Intermediate

Conscious Cars – Crafted Conversations (Copy)

Daniel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Fitzpatrick Manager at Frank Reply
Maria Müller
Maria Müller Senior Conversational UX Architect at Frank Reply
Speaker Name
Speaker Name Principal Consultant at @Visible Flow Consulting
Conversational AI Conversational User Experience LLM Product

SHORT DESC. This session is a deep-dive into the special challenges which confront programmers and conversational designers when architecting in-vehicle speech interfaces. We will give an overview of the different cognitive needs of drivers as compared to users of other voice-driven applications. After that, we will discuss the specific use cases and associated syntactical and semantical approaches for delivering the right experience. Lastly, we’ll give a glimpse into the future, where conversational AI will play a dominating role over conventional speech architectures. In particular, we’ll touch on the challenges of transitioning from rule-based intent matrices towards LLM-driven intent recognition.

Most drivers (and almost all consumers) use speech interfaces every day.
This session is quite innovative, because it offers a detailed inspection “under the hood”, which gives insights into the complicated processes and expertise necessary to provide effective in-vehicle speech applications!
Insights will be given into:
– The specific role of the in-car assistant
– How vehicle outputs must adapt to widely differing contexts
– Multi-intent management and AI speech architecture
– Types of vehicle prompts and their special challenges

Read more →

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