Ben's recent work is with in-vehicle speech interfaces at
Toyota InfoTechnology Center
in Mountain View, California.
His experience with speech recognition spans 25 years between Japan and the USA at
Panasonic Speech Technology Lab,
Nuance Communications, and
ATR
where his group developed their first
Speech Translation System.
He has been awarded 7 patents.
While at
Toyota
he managed projects involving collaborations with
Stanford University's
Department of Communications,
NEC Labs America,
KDDI, and
Dejima while their
while their VP of Engineering was Adam Cheyer who later founded
Siri.
Ben's daughter,
Grace,
studies at
Waseda University.
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