FORA.tv Speaker - Kurt Fuqua

Kurt Fuqua is Vice President of SVOX USA. A computational linguist who has created natural-language understanding software for mobile phones and who specializes in conversational systems, Fuqua was project manager for Pico, the speech synthesis in Android, part of Google's Nexus One phone.

He created and maintains the Scalable Language API, an industry standard for natural-language applications. He has also created comprehensive grammars for multiple languages.