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Speaker Bios: Click on Names to read full bio.
Paul Adams, Director Product Management, BroadSoft
Paul Adams is the Director of Contact Center Solutions at BroadSoft, a leading provider of mobile Unified Communications, VoLTE and RCS solutions to service providers around the world. During his 20+ years in the industry, he has held multiple roles, including product management, business development, marketing, and sales.
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Rajeev Agarwal, Senior Product Manager, Speech, NLU & Dialog, Telenav
Rajeev is a seasoned speech professional with a deep background in speech recognition, NLU, spoken dialog, and user experience. Since his Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rajeev has spent the last 17 years working in almost all aspects of speech application deployments – pre-sales, R&D, professional services, engineering, product management, marketing, etc.
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Heath Ahrens, Founder and CEO, iSpeech
Heath Ahrens is the founder and CEO of iSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) and speech recognition (ASR) provider. Ahrens pioneered DriveSafe.ly®, an award winning mobile app downloaded over 30 million times. He also launched iSpeech’s SDK, enabling developers to integrate TTS and Speech recognition into their apps, with over 20k developers signed up today. Heath was named to NJBIZ’s “40 under 40” and has spoken about speech technology and distracted driving at SpeechTEK, CTIA and TEDx.
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Greg Aist, Staff Software Engineer, Telenav
ContentGregory Aist (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon) is a speech scientist and software engineer specializing in spoken dialogue systems. He has worked on language learning, astronaut and pilot training, mobile search, and navigation. Gregory has thirteen years experience in government, academia, and industry and is a co-founder of the journal Dialogue & Discourse.
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Detlev Artelt, CEO, aixvox consulting
Detlev Artelt is CEO of aixvox GmbH, an international consulting and service enterprise. The company’s focus is the optimization of customer communication in the field of Unified Communications, speech applications, marketing and training. Detlev Artelt ist also author and publisher of professional articles and the book series voice compass and PRAXISTIPPS.
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Laurent Balaine, President, LBCie
Laurent Balaine is an Entrepreneur and Business Angel with an extensive global experience running software businesses across, Europe the USA and Asia. CEO of Telisma (2001-2008), he led the international development of this speech recognition software company. In 2008 Telisma was acquired by OnMobile, a Value Added Services company based in India. Laurent Balaine managed & developed OnMobile’s business in Europe and North America for 3 years. Before joining Telisma, Laurent BALAINE spent 16 years at Hewlett-Packard.
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Sara Basson, Worldwide Program Director - Services Innovation Lab, IBM - TJ Watson Research Center
Sara Basson works in IBM Research as the Worldwide Program Director for the Services Innovation Lab. She recently completed an international assignment at IBM Research-India, working on strategy, business, and user interface design issues for Spoken Web. Sara holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Speech Science from The Graduate Center of CUNY.
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Samrat Baul, Director VUI Design and Analytics, [24]7
Samrat Baul leads the Application Design team at [24]7. He is a Design expert with more than ten years of experience designing structured and unstructured applications for American Express, USAA, United Airlines and other Fortune 500 companies. Samrat is a veteran of the speech and mobile industry, having spent years at Verizon and Tellme. Samrat has a Master's Degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India.
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Brett Beranek, Solutions Marketing Manager, Nuance Communications
Brett Beranek is the Solutions Marketing Manager for Voice Biometric Solutions at Nuance. Prior to joining Nuance, Mr. Beranek held various business development & marketing positions within the security software space, including a founding partner role within the facial recognition startup Viion Systems. Brett has in-depth experience with a wide range of other security technologies, including fingerprint biometrics, video analytics and license plate recognition technology.
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Shai Berger, CEO, Fonolo
Shai Berger is Co-Founder and CEO of Fonolo and is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction. Fonolo offers cloud-based call-back solutions for call centers. Shai's experience and accomplishments within the customer service and contact center industries have positioned him as a thought leader and innovator in the space.
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Peter Boda, Co-founder and Director of Research, zoom::moon
Péter worked with Nokia Research Center (Helsinki, Palo Alto and Hollywood labs) for more than 16 years. He has contributed to several key innovation areas (natural language understanding, bilingual conversational systems, multisensory and multimodal applications). His motivation is to make people’s lives easier by reducing the necessity of interaction with machines and systems. Currently he is focusing on design consultancy, data and interaction visualization, and storytelling-based communication as the cofounder at zoom::moon.
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Ahmed Bouzid, Senior Director Product Marketing, Angel
Dr. Ahmed Bouzid is the VP of Strategy and Innovation at Angel. Ahmed has over 15 years of experience in the fields of Speech Automation and Natural Language Processing and has written extensively on Voice Automation and Voice User Interface design. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University, a Master's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in the Philosophy of Science, also from Virginia Tech
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Sebastien Bratieres, Speech Evangelist, dawin gmbh
Sébastien developed technology for several European speech-related entrepreneurial ventures in telephony (Tellme) and embedded platforms (Voice-Insight). He now spearheads quint, the newly established voice division at dawin gmbh. Sébastien holds an MPhil in speech processing from the University of Cambridge, where he currently also pursues research in statistical machine learning.
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Chuck Buffum, President, Buffum Consulting
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Ciprian Chelba, Research Scientist, Google
Ciprian Chelba received his M.S in 1996 and Ph.D. in 2000 from the ECE Department at the Johns Hopkins University. Between 2000 and 2006 he worked as a Researcher in the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research, after which he joined Google, where he is Staff Research Scientist. His research interests are in statistical modeling of natural language and speech, as well as related areas such as machine learning with an emphasis on large-scale data-driven modeling.
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Emmett Coin, CEO, Industrial Poet, ejTalk
"Emmett Coin, theCEO founder of ejTalk, leads research, development and productization of multimodal conversational engines. Emmett's expertise began at MIT, investigating early computer-based speech technology. He directs R&D groups and architects real world systems for speech-based applications. He is active in the AVIOS Advanced Dialog Group. Emmett is evangelizing the ejTalker engine benefits for always-on, long term, personal relationship based synthetic agents. "
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Mary Constance Parks, Principal Interaction Designer, Nuance Communications
Mary Constance Parks has designed voice user interfaces for a range of speech and multimodal products and applications. Mary applies linguistic principles throughout the design process and is an advocate for user-centered design.
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Deborah Dahl, Principal, Conversational Technologies
Dr. Deborah Dahl is the Principal at Conversational Technologies, which applies speech, language, and multimodal technologies to create innovative solutions. She is also active in standards, serving as the Chair of the W3C’s Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Dr. Dahl received a Speech Luminary award from Speech Technology Magazine in 2012.
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Vishal Dhawan, Chief Technology Officer, Xtone
Coming soonVishal pioneered the architecture, design and development of Xavi Platform and currently leads all of Xtone’s product and technology efforts. Prior to Xtone, Vishal was CTO at PriceInteractive, a leading provider of interactive voice services to Fortune 500 customers and carriers, which is now the Convergys Speech Solutions line of business. Vishal became a part of PriceInteractive as a result of its acquisition of FusionTec, a company he founded and grew into a global systems integration firm.
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Farzad Ehsani, CEO, Fluential
Farzad has an 19-year record of management, software development, and research at companies such as Motorola, NEC, Dejima, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Prior to Fluential, he was the business and engineering head of Entropic's Application Group, which was sold to Microsoft in 1999. As Fluential's CEO, Farzad is responsible for defining and articulating the product vision, driving the market opportunity, and managing the day-to-day operations of the company.
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Lawrence Flynn, CEO, Artificial Solutions
Lawrence Flynn is CEO of Artificial Solutions, an international business specializing in Natural Language Interaction (NLI) - a technology that allows people to hold meaningful, two-way conversations with connected consumer devices. Since the company was formed in 2001, it has implemented hundreds of projects globally in 21 languages that are used by millions of people every year.
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Beverly Freeman, Principal User Researcher, Intuit
Beverly Freeman is a user researcher and innovation catalyst at Intuit, where she experiments with new ways to get to customer insights and discover better research questions. Her approach is inspired by the assertion that “innovation = imagination of what could be based in a knowledge of what is.”
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Stephen Gay, Design Strategist, Intuit
Stephen leads business teams through the early phases of design thinking and identifies new opportunities for mobile and platform products. A consultant with over 15 years experience in user centered design at companies like Motorola, Sapient, and HannaHodge, he believes deep customer empathy and rapid experimentation are critical to sparking delightful products. His current focus is remaining mobile, social, and global Intuit products.
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Dr. W. Randolph Ford, Associate Professor, Hood College
Randy Ford has been working in the area of Applied Artificial Intelligence for over 30 years. Beyond teaching graduate level courses in A.I. and conducting research in this area, he has held C-level positions at six different companies and hold three patents in Natural Language Processing.
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David Frerichs, President, Media Tuners
President of Media Tuners, Mr. Frerichs has worked to put Web experiences on devices for over a decade. Starting with the first Internet radio devices, the Sonicbox in 1999 and the Philips FWi-1000 in 2001, Mr. Frerichs has most recently been leveraging cloud platforms to bring unified voice and touch enabled services to cars, TVs, and apps.
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Brian Garr, CEO, LinguaSys
Brian Garr is a founder and CEO of LinguaSys. Brian was CTO of Globalink (an MT company) from 1995-1998 when Globalink was sold to L&H. Brian then went to IBM and started the MT business segment for IBM’s Software Group. He also managed IBM’s Speech Recognition Group. Brian has been an advocate and frequent speaker on MT and Speech Reco all over the world. In 1998 he was awarded the Smithsonian Institutes’ “Heroes in Technology” award for his work in Machine Translation.
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Marsal Gavalda, Director of Research, Expect Labs
Marsal is an expert in speech and language technologies. Before joining Expect Labs, Marsal served as VP and Chief of Research at Verint Systems, VP of Research at Nexidia, and Sr. Research Scientist at M*Modal. Marsal holds a PhD from CMU, speaks six languages, and organizes, every summer, a summit in Barcelona on topics as diverse as machine translation, music, or the neuroscience of free will.
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Tobias Goebel, Director of Mobile Strategy, Voxeo
Tobias has over 10 years of experience in the IVR and contact center industry. In Voxeo's office of the CTO, he works on defining the future of the mobile customer experience, which will incorporate channels such as mobile, SMS, voice, IM and social networks like Twitter.
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Marcus Graham, CEO, GM Voices
Marcus Graham, CEO, GM Voices - Making voice applications sound ‘real’ is what Marcus Graham is all about. He coined the term “voice branding” years ago. He’s Founder & CEO of Atlanta- based GM Voices. With 1,000+ voice actors and a 100+ languages and dialects in their studios (not at one time), they make voice apps simple, understandable and engaging.
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Bachir Halimi, President, Speech Mobility Inc.
Bachir Halimi is the founder and CEO of Speech Mobility, developer of Excendia, the speech-enabled personal assistant for mobile business people. He also founded Alis, a pioneer in multilingual computer interfaces (sold to Microsoft), and MediaSoft, a computer telephony platform (sold to Bell Canada). Mr Halimi has a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Montreal.
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Mark Hanson, Senior Strategist Nuance Strategy Design & Innovation, Nuance Communications
Mark Hanson is a Sr. Strategist of product innovation and business development strategy, for Nuance's Strategy Design & Innovation (SDI) team. Currently Mark is leading innovation efforts in advanced artificial intelligence solutions for, Banking & Finance, Auto Manufacturers, Airlines, Telecom and Internet Service Providers.
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Larry Heck, Chief Scientist, Distinguished Engineer, Conversational Systems Research Center, Microsoft Research
Dr. Larry Heck is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist of the Conversational Systems Research Center in Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/lheck). He was a researcher with SRI (1992-98), Nuance (1998-05) as VP and Head of R&D, and Yahoo (2005-09) as the VP of Search & Advertising Sciences.
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Jeff Hopper Sr., Dir. Client Service,s LumenVox LLC
Jeff Hopper is Senior Director of Client Services at LumenVox and responsible for all global customer-facing, including support, training and solution design. Jeff has over 20 years of expertise in speech recognition and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, including 5 years at Nuance Communications as North American Director of Sales Engineering. Jeff holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Lambuth University.
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June Hostetter, Marketing Manager, NeoSpeech
"June Hostetter has built her career in many fields, beginning with finance and rising into business development and marketing management roles. Since joining NeoSpeech, the fastest growing provider of text-to-speech software and applications, Ms. Hostetter has developed relationships with popular mobile app developers and opened new markets for NeoSpeech voice technology. "
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Susan Hura, Principal, SpeechUsability LLC
Susan L. Hura, PhD, is the owner and Principal of SpeechUsability, a consulting firm that helps clients understand and plan for successful speech technology projects. Dr. Hura’s deep experience in linguistics, speech acoustics, human-computer interaction, and speech technologies has enabled SpeechUsability to help clients in the travel, financial services, automotive, retail, telecommunications, and healthcare industries. She founded and managed the Center for User Experience at Intervoice, and was a member of the human factors team at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs.
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Tareq Ismail, User Experience Lead, Maluuba
Tareq Ismail, a Mathematics graduate from the University of Waterloo, is the User Experience Lead at Maluuba. Responsible for designing the end-to-end experience for users, he's involved in usability and product direction. He's previously worked at Nuance, RIM, and Amazon.com.
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Antoine Kauffeisen, VP Marketing, Acapela Group
Antoine, VP Marketing of Acapela Group since 2004. Joined Elan Speech in 1995 as International Business Developer before becoming Sales Director. Prior to join Elan he worked for almost ten years in various sales positions for major European Computer Distributors. He has a linguistics, management and sales background.
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Nagesh Kharidi, Technical Director,Openstream
Nagesh Kharidi,Technical Director at Openstream Inc, has over 15 years experience working on various mobile infrastructure, platform and application technologies. He is a core member of the team involved in the design and development of Openstream's Cue-me context-aware multimodal platform. He is a member of the W3C Multimodal Interaction working group, the W3C HTML Speech community group and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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Peter Krogh, Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture, Synchronoss Technologies
Peter specializes in speech and mobile application design, architecture and usability testing. His groundbreaking “LevelOne” telephony applications can troubleshoot complex technical problems. Currently he is designing the next generation of mobile support solutions at Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
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James A. Larson, President, Larson Technical Services
James A. Larson, Vice President, Larson Technical Services - For eleven years Jim chaired the World Wide Web’s Voice Browser Working Group, which standardized languages for developing IVR systems including VoiceXML. Jim is co-program chair for SpeechTEK and columnist for SpeechTEK Magazine. He teaches courses in user interfaces, XML, and voice applications for Portland State University.
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Peter Leppik, CEO, Vocal Laboratories (Vocalabs)
Peter U. Leppik is president and CEO of Vocalabs. He founded Vocal Laboratories Inc. in 2001 to apply scientific principles to the problem of improving customer service. Leppik is a frequent industry speaker on the topic of measuring and improving customer service quality in call centers and automated speech environments.
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Qiguang Lin, President, WuXi BaiHu Ltd
"Qiguang Lin received his Ph.D. from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 1990. Before he started WuXi BaiHu Technologies, ltd., 2011. Dr. Lin used to be with IBM, Loquendo, Yahoo, and Promptu at technical and/or technical management positions. BaiHu is a speech technology and services company located near Shanghai, China. For speaker agreement, please refer to the attachment. "
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Judith Markowitz, President, J. Markowitz Consultants
Judith Markowitz chairs AVIOS’ Voice-Biometrics Technology Forum. She was technology editor of Speech Technology Magazine, co-chaired the Speaker-Biometrics Committee (VoiceXML Forum) and was VoiceXML’s liaison to ANSI. Her publications include Lexical Semantic Relations, Using Speech Recognition, Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions, and Where Humans Meet Machines. In 2003, Judith was named a speech-industry top-ten leader. In 2006, the IEEE elevated her to Senior Member status.
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Mike Mateer, Vice President Engineering and Operations, Angel
Michael Mateer is SVP of Product, Engineering and Operations. Mike has over 20 years of experience in Telephony Communications and multiple automated Interaction Channels. In addition, Mike possesses 15+ years of experience working with Automated Voice Self-Service technologies such as VoiceXML, IP Multimedia Sub Systems (IMS), and mobile operating systems and applications.
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Valentine Matula, Senior Director Multimedia Research, Avaya Inc.
Valentine Matula, Director Multimedia Research, Avaya Inc. - Dr. Matula leads research in video, mobile applications, language processing, acoustics and social media networking at Avaya. He has 20+ years of experience in automated systems at Avaya and its predecessor, Bell Labs. His Masters is from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. is from Case Western Reserve University.
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Jenni McKienzie, Voice Interaction Designer, Travelocity
Jenni is the voice interaction designer at Travelocity. Her responsibilities include not just designing the IVR in its dozens of flavors for Travelocity and their leisure and corporate travel partners, but monitoring, tweaking, and tuning it, plus working with various components of the business to see how IVR can best help them and being a constant advocate for the customer.
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Dave McNamara, President, McNamara Technology Solutions LLC
Dave McNamara as a manager at Ford Motor Company Research developed new infotainment systems. His team’s work was a forerunner of SYNC announced at the 2007 Consumer Electronic Show (CES). Today, Dave’s consulting business McNamara Technology Solutions LLC has clients in the area of active safety, telematics and wireless.
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William Meisel, President, TMA Associates
Bill Meisel, PhD, President, TMA Associates; Editor, Speech Strategy News; and author, The Software Society - Bill Meisel is co-organizer of the Mobile Voice Conference, and was a professor of EE and CS at USC, manager of the Computer Science Division of a defense company, and president of a speech recognition company he founded. He is currently an independent industry analyst, author, and consultant, and blogs at Meisel-on-Mobile.com.
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Michael Metcalf, CEO, Voice Assist
Michael Metcalf, CEO, Voice Assist - Mr. Metcalf has been a pioneer in the speech technology industry for 12 years and won 25 top industry awards including 5 product of the year awards. Mr. Metcalf is currently focused on developing and deploying true handsfree safe driving solutions to maximize productivity and safe driving.
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Marie Meteer, Adjunct Professor and Consultant, Brandeis University and MM Consulting
Dr. Marie Meteer is a consultant with over 25 years experience in speech and NLP. She is a Professor in Brandeis University's Computational Linguistics Program and Director of Speech at Xtone. She was VP of Speech at EveryZing (now RAMP Holdings) and spent 20 years at BBN in research and product management.
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Dan Miller, Sr. Analyst, Opus Research
Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for service providers, computer makers and software developers. Dan founded Opus Research in 1985 and defined the Conversational Commerce marketplace by authoring scores of reports addressing business opportunities that reside where automated speech leverages Web services, mobility and enterprise software infrastructure.
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Edward Miller, Chairman, LumenVox
Edward Miller is Chairman and Founder of LumenVox and is responsible for developing the company's strategic vision. Ed founded LumenVox after more than 20 years of designing and implementing multi–lingual accounting systems for worldwide corporations; including founding Progressive Computing LLC., where he oversees a telephony hosting facility with state of the art voice over IP infrastructure. Ed holds a Bachelor of Science from Hillsdale College and 5 U.S. Speech Recognition patents.
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Todd Mozer, CEO, Sensory Inc.
Todd Mozer, CEO, Sensory - Todd F. Mozer is President, CEO, and Chairman of Sensory, a leading supplier of chips and software for embedded speech applications. Mr. Mozer has worked forever in the speech industry, and holds a bunch of patents on speech technology and applications. His education is from UCSB and Stanford and he enjoys playing guitar and running marathons.
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Dr.Inderpal Singh Mumick, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Kirusa Inc.
Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Kirusa. He previously co-founded Savera Systems. Dr. Mumick is the author of eighteen issued patents. He received a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engg from the IIT, Delhi, India in 1986, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991.
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Amy Neustein, CEO and Founder, Linguistic Technology Systems
Amy Neustein, Ph.D., is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Speech Technology and Series Editor of the Springer Briefs in Speech Technology. She is De Gruyter’s Series Editor of Speech Technology in Medicine and Healthcare. She is co-editor (with Judith A. Markowitz) of Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions and of Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions to Knotty Natural Language Problems. She is editor of Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics, and co-editor of Forensic Speaker Recognition: Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism.
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Patrick Nguyen, CTO, [24]7
Patrick joined [24]7 in 2011 when we acquired Voxify, where he led product and platform development teams in his role as CTO. Prior to Voxify, Patrick served in strategy, product development and R&D positions at Personify, McKinsey & Company and Australia’s Telstra Research Labs. He holds multiple speech technology patents and is a frequent speaker at the SpeechTEK, Mobile Voice and ACCE conferences. Patrick earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in business administration from MIT’s Sloan School.
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Chris O'Conner, CEO and Co-Founder, Taptera
Chris is co-founder and CEO at Taptera. Chris enjoys creating teams, systems and companies. He's passionate about improving employees’ relationships with their software and has 15 years of experience bringing innovative IT solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Previously at Genentech for 8 years, Chris was Associate Director of Cloud and Mobile Solutions and Principal Systems Architect.
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Gregory Pal, Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Business Development, Nuance Enterprise Division
Gregory Pal is responsible for customer self-service solutions that are used by leading organizations around the world to automate and optimize customer care experiences – from the contact center to the Web and mobile devices. Prior to joining Nuance, Mr. Pal held various marketing, strategy, and business development roles in a variety of industries, including network-based IVR services at Tellme Networks, renewable fuels and chemicals at LS9, and customer engagement solutions at Opower.
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Stuart Patterson, CEO, Xtone
Stuart Patterson, CEO, Xtone - Stu was previously CEO of SpeechWorks, the original leader in network speech solutions, and led the company’s IPO in 2000. Stu also led the merger of SpeechWorks with Scansoft (now Nuance), where he served as President until 2004. Before SpeechWorks, he co-founded and led Vicorp Interactive Systems, a global developer of software for interactive voice services. Stu was named a "Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum and holds degrees from Harvard and Yale.
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Shlomo Peller, CEO, Rubidium Ltd.
Shlomo Peller is the founder and CEO of Rubidium Ltd. His 30 years of experience includes management of DSP related software and hardware projects and teams for leading Israeli companies and startups in the areas of speech processing, communications and medical imaging. Mr. Peller is regarded as an expert in DSP theory and applications.
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Roberto Pieraccini, CEO and Director, ICSI
Roberto Pieraccini is currently the Director of ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute. Prior to that he was the CTO of SpeechCycle, and worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research, SpeechWorks, Bell Labs, AT&T Shannon Laboratories, and CSELT. He is a fellow of IEEE and ISCA, a member of the AVIOS board, and a member of the editorial board of several scientific and technology magazines. His book “The Voice in the Machine” on the history of computer speech understanding technology, published by MIT Press.
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Bruce Pollock, Vice President, Professional Services, West Corporation
Bruce Pollock is Vice President, Strategic Growth and Planning at West Interactive, where he focuses on future growth strategies for the Company. Bruce has over twenty-two years of business management experience, including fourteen years in the automated customer contact field. Bruce serves on the Board of Directors of AVIOS and is a past Board member and Chair of the VoiceXML Forum. He has been granted one industry related patent.
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Ben Reaves, Consultant, Oracle
Benjamin Reaves works on applications of speech recognition in California and Japan. After graduating from Stanford in statistical signal processing, he spent ten years at Panasonic, and returned to California to work with a startup company called Nuance. At Toyota he led their driver-vehicle interaction team and gained immense respect for applications of Psychology in User Experience research. He is now at Speech Morphing in Campbell.
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Dave Rich, CEO, LumenVox LLC
Dave Rich is CEO at LumenVox and responsible for all aspects of company planning and operations. He has more than 17 years of experience in the speech industry and from leadership roles with American Airlines in M&A and the Call Center organization, and overseeing Sales Operations and Industry Marketing at Nuance Communications. Dave holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts from Pacific Lutheran University.
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Jeff Rogers, VP and Co-Founder, Sensory
Jeff Rogers, Vice President and Co-Founder of Sensory - Jeff has been focused on selling and designing voice user interfaces for more than eighteen years in hundreds of products using Sensory speech technologies. He has experience working in the mobile, appliance, automotive, home automation, toy and game, and general consumer electronics industries.
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Alexander Rudnicky, Principal Systems Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Alexander I Rudnicky is a Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and also president of Automated Speech Technologies. His interests include speech recognition and understanding, spoken dialog systems and human-robot interaction.
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Ananth Sankar, Distinguished Engineer, Emerging Technology Group, Cisco
Ananth Sankar is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, and is responsible for the company’s R&D direction in multimedia content analytics for enhancing video and collaboration experiences. He is interested in speech and language processing, machine learning and data analytics, and has worked at Bell Labs, SRI International, Nuance, and Yahoo.
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Hassan Sawaf, CEO, Sawaf UG
Hassan Sawaf, is a serial entrepreneur, and an internationally recognized scientist in different technology areas, specifically in HLT. Until January 2013, he was HLT Director and Chief Scientist at SAIC, now he works on new ventures and technological challenges. His special interests cover general natural language processing, machine translation, speech recognition, signal processing and machine learning, especially if applied on noisy, scarce and/or unstructured data.
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Thomas Schalk, Vice President Voice Technology, Agero
Tom Schalk, VP, Voice Technology, Agero - Dr. Thomas B. Schalk is Vice President, Voice Technology at Agero, a leading connected vehicle service provider with customers that include Hyundai, Toyota, Lexus, and BMW. He leads a group that focuses on automotive speech solutions and user interfaces that are safe to use while driving. Prior to Agero, Dr. Schalk was the CTO of Philips Speech Processing, and the CTO of Voice Control Systems. He has over twenty years of experience in the speech recognition industry. He received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his BSEE from the George Washington University.
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Ria Farrell Schalnat, Counsel – Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Passion for technology is the reason Ria became a patent and software licensing attorney following a career as a computer programmer. She chairs the Cincinnati Chapter of AVIOS. She has taught law classes in open source licensing, computer/cyberspace law and patent prosecution history analysis. Ria pronounces for a feeder bee to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Ria coaches children’s chess at Hua Xia School where she also studies Mandarin to speak with her recently adopted son from China.
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Thomas Scheerbarth, Senior Project Manager, Telekom Innovation Laboratories
Thomas joined Telekom Innovation Laboratories in 2008. His current activities are focussed on conception, development and realisation of intuitive, multimodal user interfaces for different kinds of applications and mobile services. Thomas has also long experience in international standardisation; currently he is active in the area of messaging services.
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Bob Schoenfield, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Audience
Bob Schoenfield is vice president of marketing and business development and is responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the company’s range of earSmart™ Advanced Voice processors, including driving brand awareness, demand generation, product management, product marketing and marketing communications. Bob is also responsible for managing the company’s engagement with mobile operators worldwide, overseeing partnerships with information service providers, and developing new market and strategic growth opportunities.
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K. W. 'Bill' Scholz, President, NewSpeech LLC
Dr. Scholz has over 35 years experience in cognitive science, computer based training, expert systems, and speech / natural language processing. He is a frequent industry speaker, author of numerous publications, and president of AVIOS, the speech industry’s oldest professional organization . He has consulted extensively for domestic and international organizations in architectural design, speech technology, knowledge-based systems and integration strategies. Dr. Scholz’ primary focus is on speech application development methodology, service creation environments, and technology assessment.
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Glen Shires, Software Engineer and Speech Specialist, Google
Glen Shires is the lead software engineer for Google Speech APIs and the Chrome Speech Service. He also chairs the W3C Speech API group. He specializes in the integration of internet, speech-recognition, video and voice communications. Prior to Google, he led development teams for voice and speech products at Intel and General Magic.
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Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Siewiorek, Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is Director of the Quality of Life Technology NSF Engineering Research Center. He leads an interdisciplinary team that has designed and constructed over 20 generations of mobile computing systems.
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Raj Singh, CEO, Tempo AI Inc.
Raj Singh is the Founder and CEO of venture-backed Tempo AI, developing a smart calendar assistant. Tempo AI was spun-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) where Raj served as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence). Previously, Raj was the founding VP of BizDev for Skyfire and previously co-founded Veeker and ToneThis.
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Bradford Starkie, Chief Scientist, Gazunti
Brad Starkie is the Chief Scientist at Gazunti. He has a PhD in language processing and machine learning and has 17 patents granted on three continents. His experience with mobile speech recognition development began in 1996 when he built a SIRI like personal assistant at Australia’s Telstra Research Laboratories.
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Dr. Joachim Stegmann, R&I Director Future Communication, Deutsche Telekom AG
Joachim Stegmann has worked in the area of speech technology and related applications for almost 20 years. He is now Research & Innovation Director ‘Future Communication’ at Telekom Innovation Laboratories where he is responsible for innovation development for new voice and communication products of Deutsche Telekom. Joachim holds a Dr.-Ing. degree in information technology from Aachen University of Technology, Germany.
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Raj Tumuluri, CEO, Openstream
Raj leads the context-aware multimodal platform and Enterprise mobile applications development at Openstream. With over 18 years of experience in distributed computing, multimodal technology, international standards development, is a co-author of several Speech & Multimodal Interaction standards at the W3C. His current research focuses on human-centric-interfaces in context-aware distributed mobile applications using multimodality & OSGi technology.
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Sunil Vemuri, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, reQall Inc.
Sunil co-founded and oversees product strategy & development at reQall. Previously, he worked at Apple and France Telecom. Sunil’s interests include Human and Organizational Memory, AI, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Product/Interaction design. He has 5 patents and his work has been covered by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, CNN, and MIT Technology Review. Sunil received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Media Lab for his seminal work on an audio-based personal memory assistant.
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Peter Voss, CEO, Smart Action
Peter Voss, CEO, Smart Action Company - Peter is an entrepreneur with a background in electronics, business and technical software, as well as management. More recently he has been working in the fields of philosophy, psychology, ethics and computer science. In 2001 he founded a company with the express goal of developing a commercially viable general-purpose AI engine.
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Julia Webb, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, VoiceVault
Julia has a successful track record of over 20 years of marketing and sales management experience within the biometrics technology industry. She held management positions at leading biometric companies ranging from Visionics (Identix) to Bioscrypt. Julia’s expertise lies in driving growth through marketing, strategic partnerships and effective sales and customer service teams.
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Steven Wegmann, Speech Group Leader, International Computer Science Institute
Steven Wegmann has worked at industrial research laboratories on problems in speech processing for nearly two decades, holding positions at Dragon Systems, Lernout & Hauspie, VoiceSignal Technologies, Nuance Communications, and Cisco Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a mathematician who specialized in algebraic topology. He obtained his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Warwick while he was a Marshall Scholar. He has been a staff researcher at ICSI since 2010 and began leading the Speech Group in 2013.
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Robert Weideman, Executive Vice-President and General Manager, Enterprise Division, Nuance
Robert Weideman is the executive vice president and general manager of the Nuance Enterprise Division, responsible for customer self-service solutions that are used by leading organizations around the world to automate and optimize the customer care experience – from the call center to the Web and mobile devices. In his tenure with Nuance, he has been the general manager for Dragon and Imaging products and SVP of international marketing in EMEA.
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Brent White, Architect Mobile User Experience, Oracle
Brent White leads design and research efforts for the mobile user experience at Oracle. He drives innovation by applying design excellence to make work tasks effortless. He conducts field and lab research to constantly improve Oracle’s understanding of enterprise user roles in order to focus applications to their essential tasks.
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Silke Witt, VP Speech Solutions, Fluential
Silke Witt-Ehsani, Vice President, Speech Solutions - Fluential Dr. Silke Witt is VP of Speech Solutions at FLuential, focussing on interactive speech solutions for mobile devices. Previously, she managed the TuVox Design Center covering spoken dialog systems for call centers. She has over 12 years of experience with leading-edge speech solutions and holds a PhD in Speech Recognition from Cambridge University, England.
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Matt Yuschik, Mobile Banking Architect, CitiBank Corporation
Dr. Yuschik designs and tests the Multimodal Mobile Banking UX/IU for Citibank’s R&D group, which includes voice navigation, voice and face authentication, transaction analysis, and usability. He field-trialed a Multimodal Workstation for Call Center agents at Convergys, and also field trialed Voice Authentication for remote Banking agents. At Comverse, he designed and helped develop voice-activated voice mail in 7 European countries and languages. Matt has 9 patents, 3 patents pending, and is on the AVIOS Board for 8 years.
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