"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay

What can we hope for the future of speech?

• That new tools will appear that change the way we think about application development.
• That we are brave enough to admit that speech and AI are inseparable concepts.
• That someone finds a way to illustrate the pure fun, charm and "power of talking with the machine."

What concepts are getting old?

• HMM?
• VoiceXML?
• Writing grammars?
• Designing dialog flow?
• Recording prompts?