INNOVATION usually needs time to steep. Time to turn the idea into
something tangible, time to get it to market, time for people to decide
they accept it. Speech recognition technology has steeped for a long
time: Mike Phillips remembers that in the 1980s, when he was a Carnegie
Mellon graduate student trying to develop rudimentary speech
recognition systems, “it seemed almost impossible.”
Now,
devices that incorporate speech recognition are starting to hit the
mass market, thanks to entrepreneurs like Mr. Phillips. He is the chief
technology officer and a co-founder of the Vlingo Corporation, an
18-month-old start-up in Cambridge, Mass., that is selling services to
cellular carriers and other software companies that want to give their
customers the ability to let their mouths do the walking — and
the searching.
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