Michael Phillips (born August 1, 1961) is the CEO and co-founder of Sense Labs and a pioneer in machine learning, including mobile speech recognition and text-to-speech technology.
[4] In 1994, Phillips co-founded and became CTO of Boston-based SpeechWorks,[5] which became one of the leading US-based vendors of speech recognition technology at the time, alongside Nuance Communications and IBM.
[8] SpeechWorks’ technology worked for call-center interfaces because the customer could verbally answer questions posed by the human-sounding speech recognition program, rather than navigating through a menu.
The technology also had time-saving “barge-in” capabilities, meaning that a customer could interrupt the system before it finished offering the full list of options.
[2] While Phillips was CTO at ScanSoft, he worked on technologies across the company's products, including the leading dictation software Dragon NaturallySpeaking.