James K. Baker
| James K. Baker | |
|---|---|
| Fields | speech recognition |
| Institutions | Dragon Systems |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | Stochastic Modeling as a Means of Automatic Speech Recognition (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Raj Reddy |
| Known for | Dragon Systems |
James K. Baker and his wife Janet Baker are the co-founders of Dragon Systems. Together they are credited with creation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.[1][2]
James Baker is an expert in speech recognition technology and a Distinguished Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
In June 2007, Baker was appointed Director of Research at the new Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University.[2][3]
He recently coauthored a historical review on speech recognition with Xuedong Huang and Raj Reddy for CACM .[4]
Baker is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
Publications
- Baker, J. (1975). "The DRAGON system—An overview". IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 23: 24–29. doi:10.1109/TASSP.1975.1162650.
References
- ↑ "History of Speech Recognition". Dragon Medical Transcription. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- 1 2 Chris Emery, Allison Connolly and Siobhan Gorman, "Hopkins Center to Help War Effort ; U.S. Grant to Pay for High-Tech Translation Aids". Baltimore Sun, June 25, 2007
- ↑ "Language Technology Center Funded at Johns Hopkins". News Release, Johns Hopkins University, June 25, 2007.
- ↑ http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/1/170863-a-historical-perspective-of-speech-recognition/fulltext
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