Real Thing was formed in March 2008 by a team of highly experienced entrepreneurs and IT professionals to develop and commercialise products using the latest advances in:

1. •Automatic Speech Recognition
   

2. •Speech Synthesis
   

3. •Speech Dialogue Systems
   

4. •Artificial Intelligence
   

5. •Behaviour and Emotion modelling
   

6. •Autonomous Multi-agent systems
   

The team has over 100 years combined experience in these areas, and has created numerous internationally successful products and major projects. Team members have also started 7 successful Australian companies, employing some 1000 people and generating over $700M of export revenue.