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Bruce Balentine
Chief Scientist Emeritus
Enterprise Integration Group


Bruce Balentine is a design consultant specializing in speech, audio, and multimodal user interfaces. In almost three decades of work with speech recognition and related speech technologies, Balentine has designed user interfaces for telecommunications, desktop multimedia, entertainment, language training, medical, in-vehicle, and home automation products. As Chief Scientist for EIG and head of EIG Labs, he leads EIG's ongoing speech recognition usability R&D program, and -- in addition to providing professional IVR consulting services -- instructs at EIG workshops.

Conference Sessions By Bruce Balentine
SpeechTEK 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. B101: Emerging Alien Mind

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. STKU-5: Back to the Basics - And on to the Future

SpeechTEK 2019
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. SD202: Knowledge Café: Meet the Consultants
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. B201: Discoverability in Spoken User Interfaces

SpeechTEK 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. SD202: Tuesday Knowledge Café
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. C203: How Can Digital Agents Make Use of User Emotion?

SpeechTEK 2016

Wednesday, May 25, 2016
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. A301: New Applications for Using Voice, Part 1

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Keynote 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Panel: Social Impact of Conversing Robots

SpeechTEK 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. STKU-2: Introduction to Speech Technologies


SpeechTEK 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. STKU-1: Introduction to Speech Technologies

Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Keynote 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Speech, Language, and Intelligence: At Your Disposal

SpeechTEK 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. C301: The CreST Network: Emotion in Artificial Dialogues


SpeechTEK 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. B202: Understanding Multimodal Users

SpeechTEK 2008
Wednesday, August 20
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. B304: The Ultimate VUI Showdown

Tuesday, August 19
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. B201: How Do You VUI?

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