Janet M. Baker

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Janet M. Baker
Alma materTufts University
Carnegie Mellon University
Known forDragon Systems
SpouseJames K. Baker
Scientific career
Fieldsspeech recognition
InstitutionsMIT Media Lab
Harvard Medical School
Dragon Systems
ThesisA new time-domain analysis of human speech and other complex waveforms (1975)
Doctoral advisorRaj Reddy

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]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "History of Speech Recognition". Dragon Medical Transcription. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  2. ^ "IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award Recipients". IEEE. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  3. ^ Blanding, Michael (Fall 2012). "Speechless". Tufts Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2017.