Q&A: Scientist Ronald Kaplan, on the future of voice technology

For nearly 40 years, Ronald Kaplan has been working on better ways to talk with machines.

A former researcher at Xerox PARC and Microsoft, he’s now a consulting professor in computational linguistics at Stanford and a senior director at the Silicon Valley research division of Nuance Communications, a Massachusetts company that makes voice-enabled software for cars, smartphones, corporate call centers and medical transcription services.

By Brandon Bailey

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