William S. Meisel, Ph.D.

William S. Meisel, Ph.D., president of TMA Associates, a consulting and publishing firm, is one of the speech technology industry's best-known independent analysts and consultants. He is the publisher and editor of Speech Recognition Update newsletter and the author of influential speech-recognition market studies. The most recent market study is The Telephony Voice User Interface: Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speaker verification over the telephone.

Meisel has over 20 years of experience in speech recognition, including founding and running a speech-recognition company for ten years. He has published over 50 papers, as well as the first textbook on computer pattern recognition, and has two patents in speech recognition. He is also a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences and trade shows. Meisel is also executive director of the American Voice Input/Output Society, a non-profit organization.

Meisel obtained his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Meisel's full résumé is also available.