The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award is a Technical Field Award presented by the

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or

audio signal processing Audio signal processing is a subfield of signal processing that is concerned with the electronic manipulation of audio signals. Audio signals are electronic representations of sound waves—longitudinal waves which travel through air, consisting ...

. It may be presented to an individual or a team of up to three people. The award was established by the

Board of Directors in 2002. The award is named after

James L. Flanagan James Loton Flanagan (August 26, 1925 – August 25, 2015) was an American electrical engineer. He was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He was also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and t ...

, who was a scientist from

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

where he worked on acoustics for many years. Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.

Recipients

Source * 2021: David Nahamoo * 2020: Hynek Hermansky * 2019: Hermann Ney * 2018: Mari Ostendorf * 2017: Mark Y. Liberman * 2016: Takehiro Moriya * 2015:

Steve Young Jon Steven Young (born October 11, 1961) is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers. He also played for the Tampa Bay Buccane ...

* 2014: Biing-Hwang Juang * 2013:

Victor Zue Victor Waito Zue (born 1944) is a Chinese American computer scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1989 to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. The group ...

* 2012:

James Baker James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney, diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House Chief of Staff and 67th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President ...

and

Janet M. Baker Janet MacIver Baker and her husband James K. Baker are the co-founders of Dragon Systems. Together they are credited with creation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In 2012, she received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award ...

* 2011:

Julia Hirschberg Julia Hirschberg is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing. Hirschberg was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for contributions to the us ...

* 2010: Sadaoki Furui * 2009:

John Makhoul John Makhoul is a Lebanese-American computer scientist who works in the field of speech and language processing. Dr. Makhoul's work on linear predictive coding was used in the establishment of the Network Voice Protocol, which enabled the transm ...

* 2008:

Raj Reddy Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mello ...

* 2007:

Allen Gersho Allen Gersho is a professor emeritus at UCSB who made significant contributions in the area of signal compression and speech coding. Gersho received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1960. He received his PhD in Electric ...

* 2006: James D. Johnston * 2005:

Frederick Jelinek Frederick Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a ...

* 2004:

Kenneth N. Stevens Kenneth Noble Stevens (March 24, 1924 – August 19, 2013) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Ste ...

* 2004:

Gunnar Fant Carl Gunnar Michael Fant (October 8, 1919 – June 6, 2009) was a leading researcher in speech science in general and speech synthesis in particular who spent most of his career as a professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in ...

References

External links

Information on the award at IEEE
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