One way to keep in touch with what is happening in the commercial speech and language technology world is to pay occasional visits to the websites of HLT Central (at www.hltcentral.org) and LT World (at www.lt-world.org). Both sites provide links to news stories and press releases from companies and other organizations active in the area. The people who run these sites trawl the web for news stories of relevance, saving you the trouble of doing that yourself.