User:Voicesurfer

Charles Hemphill has worked in speech and natural language interfaces for over 20 years, beginning at Texas Instruments R&D. During his career, Charles created a system for evaluating spoken language interfaces for DARPA (ATIS: reference, paper), created the first speech-enabled Web browser, the first speech interface for Java, served on the first Java Speech API (JSAPI) committee, and served on the W3C Voice Browser working group. Charles received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Arizona and his MS in Computer Science from SMU. Charles is specification lead for JSAPI 2 (JSR 113). He currently works at EverSpeech.