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Please join The New England Chapter of AVIOS & The Brandeis Language Technology Seminar Series

Evolution of Speech and Language Based Interfaces on Mobile Devices

Mike Phillips, CTO Vlingo

Thursday, December 8th
Brandeis University
Volen 101

6:30 Reception
7:00 Presentation

Abstract
In just five years, the state-of-the-art of speech interfaces on mobile phones has gone from simple voice dialing, which nobody used, to Siri, which everyone is talking about. Vlingo has been one of the companies leading this transformation. In this presentation I will talk about the technologies which have made this happen as well as where we think things will be heading over the next few years.

About the speaker
Mike Phillips is Co-Founder and CTO of Vlingo. Mike has been active in the speech technology world for over twenty years. He started his career as a researcher first at Carnegie Mellon University and then at the Spoken Language Systems group at MIT working on core technology for automatic speech recognition. In 1994, he founded SpeechWorks based on technology that he and others had developed at MIT.

Over the next ten years, Mike and team grew SpeechWorks from a small startup in a new market into the market leader in the now established market for speech enabled call center solutions. SpeechWorks was responsible for many of key innovations in use today in the speech recognition systems deployed throughout the world.

In 2003, SpeechWorks was acquired by ScanSoft (now named Nuance). Mike joined ScanSoft as CTO and oversaw technology integration and development across the product groups. In 2005, Mike left ScanSoft to spend a year as a visiting scientist at MIT before starting Vlingo in the summer of 2006.

Presentation is free. Reservation requested. To reserve your seat contact Nancy Gardner at ngardner@alum.mit.edu or (207) 542-4036.