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
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications ...
.
In 2012, she received the
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award with her husband.
Baker is currently affiliated with the
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from ...
and
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...
as a visiting scientist and lecturer.
References
Living people
Tufts University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
MIT Media Lab people
Harvard Medical School faculty
Speech processing researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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