Conversational Technologies

Speech Technology Consulting Services
Natural Language Understanding
Speech Recognition
Virtual Assistants and chatbots
Speech and Language Technology Industry
W3C Speech and Multimodal Standards
Enterprise Speech Strategy
Conversational Systems Architectures
Testing and Evaluation

Conversational technology allows people to get information, conduct transactions, and be entertained, simply by speaking to a computer. Based on the integration of speech recognition, natural language processing and dialog understanding, conversational systems are rapidly becoming an important component of solutions including virtual assistants, chatbots, customer care, and the Internet of Things. These systems save money and time, attract new customers, and improve accessibility for their users on a day in and day out basis for millions of people all over the world.

Be sure to check out my recent book, "Natural Language Understanding with Python". This book covers everything you need to get started in the exploding technology of natural language understanding with generative AI.

Conversational Technologies is also a member of the Open Voice Interoperability Initiative of the Linux Foundation. This initiative has the goal of enabling conversational assistants developed by diverse organizations, on different platforms, to collaborate by means of a common communication protocol.

Our Expertise

Enterprise Strategies for Conversational Technology

Development of strategic plans for speech recognition, natural language, and dialog technologies, including requirements analysis, vendor selection and technology state of the art.

GenAI and Natural Language Applications

Applications of natural language technologies for a wide variety of applications, including customer service, virtual agents, language learning and speech therapy. My recent book, "Natural Language Understanding with Python" provides a strong hands on foundation in natural language understanding, starting with fundamental concepts and continuing to the latest ideas in Large Language models.

Speech Technologies

Applications of speech recognition, speech understanding and text to speech, including requirements analysis, vendor selection, design and development.

Industry Analysis

Knowledge of the industry and major company activities involving these technologies.

About Us

Deborah Dahl

Principal

I focus on advising my clients on innovative applications of GenAI technology, especially natural language understanding. I work with all kinds of customers, including startups, large enterprises, and government agencies. I frequently speak at industry conferences. I also have extensive experience in speech, multimodal and accessibility standards activities in the World Wide Web Consortium, having served as Chair of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. I have been an editor of several multimodal standards, including EMMA (Extensible MultiModal Annotation specification) and the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces specification. and am a regular columnist in Speech Technology Magazine. I have over 30 years of experience in speech and natural language technologies, including work on research, defense, government, and commercial systems. In addition to my four books, I have also published many technical papers and book chapters.

I received the "Speech Luminary" award from Speech Technology Magazine in 2012 and 2014.

Contact Us

Bring us your ideas! We love to hear about ideas for new, disruptive applications of advanced AI technologies, as well as ideas for improving traditional applications.

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