FORA.tv Speaker - William Meisel

William "Bill" Meisel is president of TMA Associates, a speech-industry consulting and publishing firm. Meisel also writes the Speech Strategy News newsletter, is co-organizer of the Mobile Voice Conference, executive director of the Applied Voice Input Output Society, and edited a recent book, VUI Visions. In the 1980s, he founded and ran a speech recognition technology company that did early work in automating customer service and continuous-speech dictation of medical reports, after managing the Computer Science Division of an engineering firm eventually acquired by a large defense company.

Meisel began his career as a university professor and wrote the first textbook on Computer Pattern Recognition. He has published over 20 papers and holds a B.S. in engineering from Caltech and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from USC.