About Us

Board of Directors

Bill Arthur – Chief Technology Officer

Bill is directly responsible for designing and implementing the Vangard AccuSPEECH Studio, which is our primary tool to allow developers to voice-activate their applications. Previously, Dr. Arthur worked for many years as a consultant in both the Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech Recognition areas. He was directly responsible for implementing the speech interfaces for the voice-activated VCOMMAND automobile navigation system. His own natural-voice TTS system is currently being revised for use in a popular radio / navigation module for a major automobile manufacturer. As Director of Engineering at Cendant Software, Dr. Arthur was responsible for the development and maintenance of all language-related software for the First Byte and Knowledge Adventure divisions, which included several popular Davidson & Associates educational products. This group successfully developed Speech Synthesis APIs and Toolkits for Windows, OS/2, and several Telephony application environments, including Creative Labs, Dialogic and Natural Microsystems.

Bill holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, as well as an MA and BA from the University of Massachusetts.