Date: Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 6:30 PM
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $20/year.

Topic

The growing number of mobile applications with speech is drawing renewed interest in a series of interesting and challenging UI puzzles. In this talk, a brief overview will be given of the various Google projects that involve speech. Bill will then describe his work on the design and research of mobile apps with speech.

About the Speaker

Bill Byrne has been designing speech-based applications for the past ten years. He's been at Google since March 2005 and is currently focusing on the design of mobile applications with speech such as the recently released voice search feature on Google Mobile Application for iPhone. He also leads UI design for 800-GOOG-411, a phone-based automated business search application. Bill is a consulting professor at Stanford where he's designed and taught courses on voice user interface design. Before Google, Bill was director of speech solutions at SAP Labs, Palo Alto (2001-2005), director of speech and language at General Magic in Sunnyvale (1999-2001) and a lecturer at Santa Clara University (1997-2000).


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