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Company  Team John Bridle, Co-founder Since obtaining a degree in Electronics at Southampton University in 1974, John Bridle has worked continously in speech technology research and associated pattern recognition techniques.  He is known as a pioneer in dynamic programming-based word spotting and continuous speech recognition, in the combination of ideas from speech processing and "neural networks", and in dynamic segmental models. Bridle began his career at ITT's Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in England, and for several years was in charge of speech recognition research at the UK Government's Joint Speech Research Unit.  At JSRU, he was responsible for the development of one of the world's first real-time continuous speech recognition machines.  As head of the Pattern Processing Principles section at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment he established relationships between several diverse approaches to speech and pattern processing. In 1992, in partnership with Melvyn Hunt, he set up the UK R&D subsidiary of Dragon Systems.  Most recently before joining Novauris, he was Joint Managing Director (along with Melvyn Hunt) of Phonetic Systems UK Ltd. Mr. Bridle has also served as an Expert Adviser on speech technology to the European Commission (DGXIII), as a member of the IEEE Speech Technical Committee, and of the editorial board of the Journal Neural Computation. He also served on the organizing committees of several international conferences including the annual IEEE International Congress on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. See also Yoon Kim (CEO) and Melvyn Hunt (Co-founder).