Position : Chief Technology Officer
Company Name : Salmat
With a B.Sc. in computer science with first class honours, Brett started his career in 1992 designing, building, and implementing software for telecommunications billing. He has entered the speech industry in March 1996 as software engineer for Voice Link and has been involved ever since with building speech recognition platforms.
Brett assisted with the process of merging VoiceLink into Scitec in 1998 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Chief Technology Officer in July 2004. Brett has been involved with almost every speech deployment at VeCommerce and indeed in Australasia, either in a technical or oversight role.
He provided assistance and/or oversight for some of the most complex speech applications in the world, including VeBet (TAB Limited, Tabcorp, Magna Entertainment, Youbet, Ladbrokes, Littlewoods BetDirect); the first deployment of SayAnything outside Nuance – and only the second deployment in the world (Suncorp Metway); and the first commercial deployment of speaker verification in Australia.
Brett's work has been featured in leading industry publications and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and user group events worldwide.