It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age
Bruce Balentine is a design consultant specializing in speech, audio and multimodal user interfaces. In more than two decades of work with speech recognition and related speech technologies, Bruce has designed more than a dozen user interfaces for telecommunications, desktop multimedia, entertainment, language training, medical, in-vehicle, and home automation products.  Bruce received a Bachelor of Music in 1971, and a Master of Music in 1975 both in composition from the University of North Texas. Pursuing an early career in electronic synthesis, computer music, multimedia production and studio engineering, he joined the computer industry in 1982 as a lab engineer and media specialist for Future Computing. His focus since has been on integrating computer science with human factors by applying aesthetically-sensible usability design principles.  Bruce has written four books about speech technologies: "It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person" (2007); "How to Build a Speech Recognition Application," with David Morgan (1999, 2002); "A Practical Guide to Phonetic Recognition" (1997); and "The GoodListener Cookbook" (1992).    Bruce is EVP and Chief Scientist for Enterprise Integration Group, Inc., a user interface research and consulting firm.