Management Team - Vangard Voice Systems, Inc.

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Management Team

Bob Bova
President
Chief Executive Officer

Dan Villanueva
Vice President
Marketing

Dr. Bill Arthur Ph.D.
Chief Technical Officer

William Sherman
Director
Chief Scientist

Bill Arthur
Chief Technology Officer

Bill is directly responsible for designing and implementing the Vangard AccuSPEECH Studio, which is our primary tool to allow developers to voice-activate their applications. Previously, Dr. Arthur worked for many years as a consultant in both the Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech Recognition areas. He was directly responsible for implementing the speech interfaces for the voice-activated VCOMMAND automobile navigation system. His own natural-voice TTS system is currently being revised for use in a popular radio / navigation module for a major automobile manufacturer. As Director of Engineering at Cendant Software, Dr. Arthur was responsible for the development and maintenance of all language-related software for the First Byte and Knowledge Adventure divisions, which included several popular Davidson & Associates educational products. This group successfully developed Speech Synthesis API’s and Toolkits for Windows, OS/2, and several Telephony application environments, including Creative Labs, Dialogic and Natural Microsystems.

Bill holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, as well as an MA and BA from the University of Massachusetts.