As vice president of engineering, Stefan Besling provides leadership for VoiceObjects’ software development team and is responsible for delivering product releases. Prior to joining VoiceObjects, he worked in Silicon Valley for a number of years first as co-founder of a Philips Electronics spin-off focused on voice-controlled multimodal applications for mobile devices and then as Director Voice Applications for YY Technologies, a company providing a Web and email-based self-service platform. Stefan has a background in speech recognition technology and held development and research roles at Philips Speech Processing and Philips Research.
Only if you were on the dark side of the moon could you have missed the
impact of the iPhone. Its sweeping success has brought mobile services into
the mainstream. As the first device to convincingly integrate traditional
phone capabilities with Web access, it highlights the multi-channel shape of
things to come.
The mobile Web is having its time in the limelight. But in truth, "mobile
applications" have been with us for quite some time. Think phone banking or
sending a text message to check on your remaining pre-paid minutes (see
Figure 1).
Doesn't sound right? That's because in terms of convenience and usability,
phone applications have historically played in the minor leagues. When
visiting eBay, have you ever been asked to "look carefully, because the order
of our menu options may have changed"? When returning to Amazon, did you ever
need to navigate through f... (more)
As vice president of engineering, Stefan Besling provides leadership for VoiceObjects’ software development team and is responsible for delivering product releases. Prior to joining VoiceObjects, he worked in Silicon Valley for a number of years first as co-founder of a Philips Electronics spin-off focused on voice-controlled multimodal applications for mobile devices and then as Director Voice Applications for YY Technologies, a company providing a Web and email-based self-service platform. Stefan has a background in speech recognition technology and held development and research roles at Philips Speech Processing and Philips Research.
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