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Panel: Conversational AI for Good
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The performance of voice technologies has improved greatly over the years, but can these advancements improve our lives? In this panel, we will hear from five people that are applying voice technologies to do exactly this. Alice Smith is the CEO of SpeakUnique, a company that offers personalised synthetic voices to people that will lose their voice due to a medical condition. Pooja Jain is the CEO of CogniHealth, a company that provides a digital companion for families and carers of those living with dementia. Christina Boididou has worked to identify fake tweets, improve housing projects, and now works at the BBC to develop Beeb - the BBC's new voice assistant. Saturnino Luz works in medical informatics developing machine learning (and alternative) methods to healthcare contexts, and coordinates the Technology and Communication Translational Research Group at the Centre for Dementia Prevention. Finally, Angus Addlesee is a PhD Researcher working to adapt voice assistants to be more accessible for people with dementia.
00:00 Intro of panelists
11:00 About Q&A
11:30 Benefits of technologies
22:26 Summary
23:25 Scope of ethical standards of Chatbots
36:20 About challenges in working
47:20 The role of different languages
49:00 The role the languages
50:30 About voice assistant
58:50 About investments
About speakers
Data Science and Machine Learning enthusiast with backgroung in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Always seeking for data-related challenges.
View the profileDr Saturnino Luz is a Reader at the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. He works in medical informatics, devising and applying machine learning, signal processing and natural language processing methods in the study of behaviour and communication in healthcare contexts. Saturnino’s main research interest is the computational modelling of behavioural and biological changes caused by neurodegenerative diseases, with focus on the analysis of vocal and linguistic signals in Alzheimers’s disease. He has also employed these methods in the investigation of interaction in multidisciplinary medical team meetings, doctor-patient consultations, telemedicine, patient safety, and health promotion.
View the profilePooja is interested in the role and use of digital technology in health and social care, with the viewpoint of "it's not about the technology but people and their mindset". She has been a keynote speaker sharing her thoughts and insights about this topic at several conferences and events internationally including: - AI Kitchen Talk hosted by Telefonica in Berlin - Solace Scotland Conference 2019 in Glasgow - Public Sector Conference hosted by RBS in Edinburgh - EIT Digital Innovation Day 2019: Is Scotland leading a Digital Wellness revolution? in Glasgow - Ageing Fit 2021 in France She has started her journey focusing on the dementia care sector. She worked as a professional carer and sees that it is possible to live well with dementia. She co-founded CogniHealth, a Scottish health-tech startup, that aims to improve the quality of life of affected families. Her work so far at CogniHealth has led her to be named the Top 20 women to watch out for in Scotland in 2018 by Business Insider. Pooja is a former RSE Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellow and won the AcceleraterHer Award hosted by Investing Women. She hopes to transform the lives of people affected by dementia and help improve cognitive health around the world.
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