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19751970s
James K. Baker
Applied hidden Markov models to speech at CMU, then co-founded Dragon Systems and shipped dictation to consumers.
Organizations
Carnegie Mellon UniversityIBM ResearchDragon Systems
Major Achievements
- •Introduced the DRAGON speech recognition system in his 1975 CMU thesis, one of the first to be built on hidden Markov models.
- •Co-founded Dragon Systems with Janet Baker in 1982.
- •Shipped Dragon NaturallySpeaking (1997), the first large-vocabulary continuous dictation product for consumers.
- •Helped move speech recognition from laboratory demonstrations into everyday software.
Key Papers
- The DRAGON System — An Overview
James K. Baker · IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing · 1975