AVIOS is announcing the third annual student application contest. Students of Speech Technology enrolled in colleges or universities worldwide are encouraged to participate in this year’s contest by registering to participate by September, 2008 and submitting applications to our judges by January, 2009.

Applications must involve speech input and/or output, and may be either pure speech or multimodal. Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1000 will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly. Winners will be announced at the Voice Search Conference in San Diego on March 2, 2009.

See the official press release