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Arjan van Hessen is a
geophysicist by training.

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Exploring for oil and
earthquakes, that kind of thing.

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He also studied Italian
and in a wonderful

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combination of both,
he became involved in

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audio technology and
speech technology in particular.

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He worked at the well-known
company, among others Belgian company

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Lernout & Hauspie, which can be called
a pioneer in the field of speech synthesis.

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Nowadays Arjan van Hessen
works for Telecats in Enschede,

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a company that deals
with customer contact.

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He is also affiliated with the
universities of Utrecht and Twente.

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Speech technology
is his specialty.

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And we are going to talk to him
about that speech technology.

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Because developments
do not exactly stand still.

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A few weeks ago, a
day was organized in

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the MuZIEum for the
blind and partially sighted.

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and that was Arjan
Hessen also involved.

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Miriam te Braken
visited Arjan van Hessen.