October 19, 2011
GEW 50 names Waveform Communication one of the top 50 startups in the world
Winner to be named on Nov. 14, 2011

September 23, 2011
Non provisional patent filed to protect the Waveform Model

May 23, 2011
Presented the Waveform Model at the 161st Acoustical Society of America conference

April 8, 2011
Book listing on The Linguist List
The Linguist List, the most extensive online linguistic resource, added the Waveform Model book to the book listing section (http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=54506). The book is categorized under Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, and Cognitive Science.

February 17, 2011
Received acceptance to present the Waveform Model at the Acoustical Society of America conference May 23, 2011 in Seattle (title and abstract below)

The waveform model of vowel perception and production

The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production was published in late 2009, but it has not been publicized or exposed to a wide audience before now. In this presentation, the framework of the Waveform Model will be explained beginning with the categorization of the vowel space, and the distinguishing features for each categorical vowel pair. From the well defined categories, the position of the lips and tongue and their association with specific formant frequencies becomes apparent, as well as an explanation of perceptual errors. With this foundation, the experimental evidence that led to 99.2/% accuracy across the 50 male talkers in the Hillenbrand et al. dataset (1995) will be presented. The 99.2/% performance was achieved with 64 lines of computer code processing the data points of the 396 vowels stored in a database. The Waveform Model provides a unique categorization of the vowel space which has led to a working explanation of vowel perception, vowel production, and perceptual errors. By explaining each of these aspects of vowel communication and achieving 99.2/% accuracy with a computer algorithm, the Waveform Model will have an impact in more than one field of research.

September 23, 2010
Filed a provisional patent application
A provisional patent application was filed on 9/23/10 for the applications being developed from the concepts in The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production (Stokes, 2009) and other detailed waveform analysis of speech. Application development discussed in the filing includes hearing, speech recognition, talker identification, and improving speech perception in noise by 8-10%. In addition to detailing these processes in the filing, a replication of the work in Stokes' Waveform Model book was done by performing the same experimental methods on the dataset made available by Hillenbrand et al. (1995; over 530 citations). The results in The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production were replicated, and the difficulty identifying the words "head" and "had" was resolved. The accuracy went to 99.2% (393/396), and 2 of the vowels that were missed by the Waveform Model were identified by humans at 60% and 65%. This is the first model to achieve over 99% accuracy and explain the production process.

June 30, 2010
Signed a letter of engagement with Bingham McHale, LLP for legal representation.

May 14, 2010
The Indiana University Alumni Association has written an article about my waveform work and made my collaboration with the SETI Institute and the Alaska Whale Foundation public. The print version will be distributed in late May, 2010.

April 16, 2010
Waveform Communication, LLC was created on 4/14/2010. This was done to facilitate the business and academic collaborations being established.

Feb. 9, 2010
Formally established a collaboration with the Alaska Whale Foundation and the SETI Institute.
We are studying humpback whale communication, and this is the first application of the Waveform Model.

Sept. 30, 2009
The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production was published by Universal Publishers.