Mike Phillips is Co-Founder and CTO of vlingo. vlingo is pioneering new voice recognition technology that enables wireless carriers to provide subscribers with an ability to simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text. Over his 20 years in the speech industry, Mike has been one of the leading contributors to the commercial application and widespread adoption of speech technology. In 1994 he co-founded SpeechWorks based on technology that he developed as part of the Spoken Language Systems program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As CTO he grew SpeechWorks from a startup in an emerging industry into a leader in the now established market for speech-enabled solutions. The company was acquired by ScanSoft (now Nuance) in 2003.