Janet M. Baker
American speech recognition researcher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janet MacIver Baker is an American computer scientist, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. Along with her husband James K. Baker, they founded Dragon Systems and are together credited with the creation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.[1]
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Janet M. Baker | |
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Alma mater | Tufts University Carnegie Mellon University |
Known for | Dragon Systems |
Spouse | James K. Baker |
Scientific career | |
Fields | speech recognition |
Institutions | MIT Media Lab Harvard Medical School Dragon Systems |
Thesis | A new time-domain analysis of human speech and other complex waveforms (1975) |
Doctoral advisor | Raj Reddy |
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In 2012, she received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award with her husband.[2]
Baker is currently affiliated with the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School as a visiting scientist and lecturer.[3]