IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award Recipients

IEEE Speech & Audio Processing Award

2009 - JOHN MAKHOUL
Chief Scientist
BBN Technologies
Speech and Language Processing Dept.
Cambridge, MA, USA

"For pioneering contributions to speech modeling."

2008 - RAJ REDDY
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
Founding Director, Herbert A. Simon University
Carnegie Mellon University West Coast Campus
Pittsburgh, PA USA

“For leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence”

2007 - ALLEN GERSHO
Professor Emeritus
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA

“For contributions to the theory and application of speech coding.”

2006 - JAMES D. JOHNSTON
Audio Architect
Codecs Group, Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA

"For pioneering research in perceptual audio coding and contributions to its standardization."

2005 - FREDERICK JELINEK
Julian Sinclair Smith Professor and Director
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

"For fundamental contributions towards the statistical modeling of speech and language."

2004 - co-recipients

GUNNAR FANT
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing
Stockholm Sweden

and

KENNETH N. STEVENS
Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Head, Speech Communication Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

"For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of acoustic phonetics and speech perception."