Kirsty McCarthy BA(Hons), MBA, AICD
[VP Sales & Marketing]
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Kirsty has been involved in the IT industry for over 20 years in a range of capacities, including ICT Senior Management, Call Centre Management and BA positions. Prior to joining Inference as one of the foundation team, Kirsty worked with Siemens and prior to that with Amcor in Australlia.
Kirsty is also the inaugral Chapter Leader for the Australian Chapter of AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society), and is on the board of the CCMA (Call Centre Management Asscoaition) in Australia.
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Callan Schebella MEng (IT&C), MBA
[VP Business Development]
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Callan is an expert in the development and commercialization of emerging speech-recognition technologies. As an employee of the Australia’s largest telco, Telstra Corp, Callan led the speech-recognition R&D team to win the Award for Innovation in Telecommunications at CeBIT Australia 2004. Callan has played an integral role in the commercialization of a range of communications technologies, including licensing deals, start-up companies and joint-ventures.
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Dr. Bradford Starkie PhD
[CTO]
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Dr Brad Starkie has 16 years industry experience working in R&D. He is internationally known for his work as a computer scientist and is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the world and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He has been an invited speaker at both International and National conferences, and has 11 peer reviewed publications (journal & conference articles). He has been granted several patents.
Brad developed the first commercially deployed large vocabulary speech recognition application in Australia; a trial of an auto-attendant for Telstra in 1997. In 1997 he also designed and built the first version of Telstra’s 1# feature assistant that provides advice and configures Telstra Easy Call using speech recognition. Since then Brad has worked extensively on the grammatical inference approach to speech recognition development which underpins Inference’s development methodology.
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Dr. Elizabeth Bednall PhD
[Manager, Human Factors & Design]
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Liz is a registered psychologist with a PhD in Psycholinguistics. She worked at Telstra Research Laboratories for 17 years in Human Factors research and specialised in user interface design for interactive voice response systems, including both DTMF and speech recognition systems. She was Telstra’s representative on Standards Australia Committee IT-022 which was responsible for the National Standard on user interface design for DTMF systems. Liz is still an active member of committee IT-022 which has recently produced the new speech standard "Interactive voice response user interface – Speech recognition" (AS 5061- 2008).
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