Dr. Deborah A. Dahl has been working in the areas of speech and natural language processing technologies for over 30 years. She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Minnesota in 1983, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania. At Unisys Corporation, she performed research on natural language understanding and spoken dialog systems, and led teams which used these technologies in government and commercial applications. Dr. Dahl founded her company, Conversational Technologies, in 2002. Conversational Technologies provides expertise in the state of the art of speech, natural language, and multimodal technologies through reports, analysis, training, and design services that enable its clients to apply these technologies in creating compelling mobile, desktop, and cloud solutions. Dr. Dahl has published over 50 technical papers, and is the editor of the book Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. She is also a frequent speaker at speech industry conferences. In addition to her technical work, Dr. Dahl is active in the World Wide Web Consortium, working on standards development for speech and multimodal interaction as chair of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. She received the 2012 Speech Luminary Award from Speech Technology Magazine. This is an annual award honoring individuals who push the boundaries of the speech technology industry, and, in doing so, influence others in a significant way.
Greg Milette is a programmer, author, entrepreneur, musician, and father of two who loves implementing great ideas. He has been developing Android apps since 2009 when he released a voice controlled recipe app called Digital Recipe Sidekick. In between yapping to his Android device in the kitchen, Greg co-authored a comprehensive book on sensors and speech recognition called Professional Android Sensor Programming, published by Wiley in 2012 and founded a mobile app consulting company called Gradison Technologies, Inc. He acknowledges the contributions to his work from the Android community, and his family who tirelessly review and test his material and constantly refresh his office with happiness.
