Simonie Wilson

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Consulting Linguist

LinguistListorg

Consulting Linguist for LinguistList.org, 1999-2004

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Speaker

American Dialect Society Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Regional Meeting Salt Lake City

“An Analysis of Phonetically Significant Phenomena in the Speech of a Nonstandard Southern English Speaker.” (with Carrie Crockett)

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Podcast Interview

VUXWorldcom

"All about Pindrop, VUI design and VUI tuning"

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Blogger

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GetAutomated.com and VUI Blog at Open Methods, 2007-2008.

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Speaker

American Dialect Society Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Regional Meeting Denver

“Exploring Methodologies for Investigating ‘Sweet Carbonated Beverage’ Isoglosses in the United States” - A variety of common words (soda, pop, coke) as well as less familiar terms (tonic, dope) are used to describe a ‘sweet carbonated beverage’. This study investigates several methods of finding the occurrence of these differing lexical items, including email survey, collection of naturally-occurring data on the Internet, and examination of telephone listings for business names that contain one of the terms. An attempt to correlate the results of this study with the results of Labov’s (1988) submarine sandwich study is also made. The results support previous research but also bring to light lexical items and considerations not previously d

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Speaker

ConveyUX Conference Seattle

"The UX of Advanced Voice Biometrics for Authentication" - When most people think of Voice Bio, it sounds a little scary. When most people think of Authentication, it just sounds frustrating. That may be, but what neither are is monolithic. When considering options in Authentication, you must go beyond the basics. There’s more to it than just knowledge based questions, one time passcodes and simple Voice Bio. It turns out there are many, many permutations of all in combination and I will explore many of them with you here. Users must feel safe and secure, but not fall into the uncanny valley when accessing sensitive data or making a high value transaction via voice. Sometimes that means adding back unnecessary friction or using legalese and

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Invited Workshop Speaker

SpeechTEK East New York

"Use Cases for VoiceXML: Forum on Advanced Dialogs"

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Contributor - "What I Wish I Knew - Career Advice from Leaders in UX" article

BlinkUX

“Don’t get distracted by the tech. It’s always about the user. It’s easy to say, ‘I want to do something with ChatGPT,’ for instance, but what are you doing for the user? Keep the user at the center, and you’ll go where you need to.”

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Panelist

Lingofest WSU Ogden UT

"Designing for Voice First"

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Speaker

SpeechTEK Conference New York

“Usability and Tuning: A Marriage Made in VUI Heaven”

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Video Interview

BlinkUX

Preview ConveyUX 2024 topic - "The UX of Advanced Voice Biometrics for Authentication"

Podcast Interview

Convergys

"What is VUI Tuning?"

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Panelist

Georgetown Technology Alliance San Francisco Pinterest HQ

"Searching for the Future"

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Speaker

eComm Conference San Francisco

“Weapons Against the VUI Backlash”

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White House Intern

White House Executive Office of the President

Selected to represent Stephens College as a White House paid Intern in Information Technology Jan - Aug, 1992

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Team Player Award - Customer Success Department

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Speaker

SpeechTEK East Conference New York

“The VUI Backlash"

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Nominated

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Circle of Excellence in Software Development Award

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Session Chair

American Dialect Society Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Regional Meeting Salt Lake City

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Speaker

UX Strat Conference Boulder CO

"Lightning Talk - What is Conversation Design and Why Do You Need It?"

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Virtual Panelist

Botmock

"Ask Me Anything" online series - "Getting a Job as a Conversation Designer"

Hughes Aircraft Company Fellow

Georgetown University

Hughes Aircraft Company Fellows Master of Science program in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown, 1996-1999.

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