Bill Byrne works on voice interface design for both product and research at Google.
Projects include voice search, voice actions, dictation and correction and various
other speech and general HCI efforts. Before Google, Bill was director of speech
solutions at SAP Labs in Palo Alto and previously director of speech & language at
General Magic in Sunnyvale. He was also consulting professor at Stanford from
2001-2007 where he designed and taught courses on speech application design. Bill was
lecturer at Santa Clara University from 1997-1999. He received his PhD in theoretical
linguistics from UC San Diego in 1998.
Google Publications
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Google Search by Voice: A Case Study
Johan Schalkwyk, Doug Beeferman, Francoise
Beaufays, Bill Byrne, Ciprian Chelba, Mike Cohen, Maryam Garrett, Brian Strope
Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics,
Springer (2010), pp. 61-90
