James K. Baker | |
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Fields | speech recognition |
Institutions | Dragon Systems |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Thesis | Stochastic Modeling as a Means of Automatic Speech Recognition (1975) |
Doctoral advisor | Raj Reddy |
Known for | Dragon Systems |
James K. Baker and his wife Janet Baker are the co-founders of Dragon Systems. Together they are credited with creation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
James Baker is an expert in speech recognition technology and a Distinguished Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
In June 2007, Baker was appointed Director of Research at the new Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University.
He recently coauthored a historical review on speech recognition with Xuedong Huang and Raj Reddy for CACM .
Baker is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.