The conference is now over. We are very thankful to all the participants, the authors and the Program Committee members who made this possible.

The conference day - September 9, 2007 had 11 participants from the following institutions/companies:

Guillermo Aradilla, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Kesong Han, Motorola Labs, China
Tomi Heimonen, Univ. of Tampere, Finland
Matt Jones, Univ. of Swansea, UK
Amit A. Nanavati, IBM Research, India
Kumar V. Praveen, Siemens, India
V. Ramasubramanian, Siemens, India
Mark Randolph, Motorola Labs, USA
Jahanzeb Sherwani, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel Sonntag, German Researsh Centre for AI, Germany
Yaxin Zhang, Motorola Labs, China

In addition to the 6 presentations of the peer-reviewed papers, there were two invited talks:

Speech and Mobiles - A Personal Story......Matt Jones
The World Wide Telecom Web ......Amit A. Nanavati

and one demo:

TravelMan: A mobile multimodal system for local transportation and route information......Tomi Heimonen

We had an interesting discussion that focussed on how to bring the HCI community and the speech community to focus on the SiMPE problem. Hopefully we will be able to achieve this in SiMPE 2008. We will be glad to hear your feedback on the workshop and suggestions on taking this area forward. Kindly post them at the SiMPE Wiki.

Here are some images:

Matt Jones asks why speech has not delivered yet.	Daniel Sonntag details his mobile multimodal interface.
Tomi's demo is a hit!	Ramasubramanian argues about the need to explore usability for speech.
Matt Jones' keynote on his experiences with Developing Regions.	Jahanzeb muses on the possibility of using SIP/VoIP.
Yaxin Zhang on AMR CODEC.	Mark Randolph insists on the need to build components and frameworks.
Tomi discusses the challenges faced in building his demo.	Kesong Han presents compelling TTS applications.

Matt Jones, Yaxin Zhang, Daniel Sonntag, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Tomi Heimonen,
Kesong Han, Mark Randolph, Guillermo Aradilla, Kumar V. Praveen, V. Ramasubramanian