Mike Cohen has been at the center of the speech technology industry for years. He spent 10 years in speech technology research at SRI, where he served as principal investigator on several federally funded speech research initiatives. In 1994, he co-founded Nuance Communications, where he was vice president of dialog research and development. He coauthored the book, Voice User Interface Design. In 2004, Mike was awarded SpeechTEK’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He now leads the speech technology efforts at Google, which he joined in 2004.