I am very interested in speech and the Web. Nicholas Negroponte head of MIT’s Media Lab made the case for this very well a few years ago when he pointed out that as computers shrink they become to small for keyboards or screens. Speech recognition and synthesis become the only practical means to interact with them. I am now involved with work on ways to exploit robust speech recognition and high quality speech synthesis that is actually bearable to listen to. I expect W3C to play an important role in helping to make the Web accessible from a broad range of devices: cellular phones, car based systems, handheld and palmtop computers, Web TVs and regular unmodified phones.