Seasoned researcher brings over 20 years' experience to mobile search provider
San Diego, CA - December 11, 2006 - Voice-based mobile search technology provider V-ENABLE, Inc. has appointed Dr. Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde as vice president and chief speech scientist.
Dr. Gadde is charged with furthering V-ENABLE's market leading accuracy and speed in the mobile voice-search industry through proprietary statistical modeling, self learning algorithms and refinements to the company's core search platform. In addition, Dr. Gadde will contribute to V-ENABLE's patent portfolio as the company aims to enhance its intellectual property with a host of new filings.
"V-ENABLE already provides carriers with reliable, scalable voice-search solutions," said Dr. Gadde. "I'm thrilled to be taking on the challenge of further positioning the company as an industry leader, and I look forward to applying my extensive research and experience in speech technology to continue its direction and development."
Prior to joining V-ENABLE, Dr. Gadde was senior research engineer at the Speech Technology and Research Laboratory at SRI International. There, he led a project called Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE) Evaluation, which focused on developing speech recognition systems that work under noisy conditions Under Dr. Gadde's guidance, SRI won an assessment sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in 2001.
Dr. Gadde also served as a faculty member in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a highly-respected engineering university in Madras. From 1988-1996, he served as a lecturer and assistant professor while pursuing a doctorate degree in computer science. In addition, Dr. Gadde has written and published over 30 research papers in different areas of speech technology, and currently holds two patents around dynamic noise compensation and clustering methods for acoustic models.
"Dr. Gadde's expansive background in speech recognition makes him a valuable enhancement to our management team," said Dipanshu "D" Sharma, CTO and co-CEO. "With the addition of one of the world's leading speech scientists, we are working to incorporate latest speech research into our commercial products that are expected in the market early next year."
About V-ENABLE
V-ENABLE is the leading provider of mobile search solutions optimized for accessing and presenting content and information over mobile networks. V-ENABLE was founded by wireless experts from Nokia, Motorola, PacketVideo and Cisco. Its patented mobile voice search technology allows mobile users to search using their voice and receive personalized content and information in a visual format on their mobile phone. The V-ENABLE mobile voice search interface software is a unique client-server solution, available for carriers, application developers and publishers using BREW, JAVA, SYMBIAN, WAP, xHTML platforms.
Founded in 2001, V-ENABLE is headquartered in San Diego, CA. Mobile voice search applications powered by V-ENABLE technology are currently available from Verizon Wireless, ALLTEL, U.S. Cellular and Leap Communications. For more information, visit http://www.V-ENABLE.com