Speech Interface Design, Inc, (SID) a major North American supplier and Systems Integrator of Industrial Speech Recognition Systems, today announced the appointment 0f Arif Ali as Director of Sales and Marketing. Joining the company in January of 2008, Mr. Ali has over 24 years of technical sales and marketing experience in Industrial Automation. Mr. Ali will be driving the company’s competitive strategies and expanding the availability and affordability of voice technology solutions to enable SID’s continued long-term track record of revenue growth during through the current economic conditions.