Clayton M. Christensen give a presentation on the phrase he coined, "The Inventors Dilemma".

This presentation covered the history of business innovation and how companies such as Nuance (Speech Control Issues) are not driven by low margin markets and focus on innovating in higher margin markets. This lack of focus on the low end paves the way for newer more nimble companies to come in and dominate the market.

The problem we are seeing here is that this is essentially not occurring. Developing speech recognition technology and making it work reasonable well is really hard. Essentially all speech reco originates from academia and then branches out for licensing and proprietary applications and solutions.

We need a revolution something disruptive like the iPhone was to the cell-phone market.

For me the next big thing in speech reco is not the cellphone....its speech enabled flash in the browser. You tackle that problem (small footprint) and you've tackled the cellphone.

Rob Mitchell Product Manager neuroLanguage http://www.neuroLanguage.com