Ulster University’s Emeritus Professor Michael McTear has a particular interest in spoken language technology. He has more than 20 years of experience conducting research in the area of spoken dialogue systems and is the co-author of several books, including Spoken Dialogue Systems (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), Spoken Dialogue Systems: Toward The Conversational User Interface (Springer, 2004), The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices (Springer, 2016), and Conversational AI ( Morgan & Claypool 2020). Michael is now engaged in a number of research and development initiatives looking at the usage of conversational bots.