Backed by more than 30 years of experience in advanced speech technology and telephony products and markets, Dr. Meisel has been an independent consultant since 1991. Meisel ran a speech recognition company for a decade, the computer science division of an engineering firm for a decade, and wrote the first textbook on computer pattern recognition early in his career as a university professor. Meisel is President of TMA Associates and editor of Speech Strategy News, a paid-subscription newsletter.

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Meisel  has been named one of the Top Ten Leaders in Speech based on an online survey by Speech Technology Magazine.  He has served as executive director of the Applied Voice Input / Output Society, a non-profit organization for the advancement of speech technology applications. He is a popular speaker and organizer at industry conferences. Meisel created and held the Telephony Voice User Interface Conference for a number of years, and is co-organizing the Mobile Voice Conference with AVIOS.

Meisel started Speech Recognition Update in January 1993, and has written over 180 monthly issues of SRU and later versions. (Telephone Strategy News was split off from Speech Recognition Update in February 2004 as that market grew, and was published monthly until August 2006, when the two newsletters were merged into Speech Strategy News.)