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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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
Conversational AI Conversational User Experience LLM Speech Interfaces

This session explores the unique challenges of designing speech interfaces for in-vehicle use, focusing on drivers’ specific cognitive needs compared to other users. It examines key use cases, along with the syntactic and semantic strategies required to create effective voice interactions in cars. The session also looks ahead to the growing role of conversational AI, especially the shift from rule-based systems to LLM-driven intent recognition. Additionally, it provides practical insights into in-car assistants, adaptive outputs, multi-intent handling, and the complexities of vehicle-specific prompts.

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AI/ML

UX/UI

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