IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award explained

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
Awarded For:	An outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing
Sponsor:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Year:	2002
Website:	https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/technical-field-awards/flanagan.html

The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award is a Technical Field Award presented by the IEEE for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing. It may be presented to an individual or a team of up to three people. The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2002. The award is named after James L. Flanagan, who was a scientist from Bell Labs where he worked on acoustics for many years.

Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.

Recipients

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• 2024: Keiichi Tokuda
• 2023: Alex Waibel
• 2022: Nelson Morgan and Herve Bourlard
• 2021: David Nahamoo
• 2020: Hynek Hermansky
• 2019: Hermann Ney^[2]
• 2018: Mari Ostendorf
• 2017: Mark Y. Liberman
• 2016: Takehiro Moriya
• 2015: Steve Young
• 2014: Biing-Hwang Juang
• 2013: Victor Zue
• 2012: James Baker and Janet M. Baker
• 2011: Julia Hirschberg
• 2010: Sadaoki Furui
• 2009: John Makhoul
• 2008: Raj Reddy
• 2007: Allen Gersho
• 2006: James D. Johnston
• 2005: Frederick Jelinek
• 2004: Kenneth N. Stevens
• 2004: Gunnar Fant

External links

• Information on the award at IEEE

Notes and References

1. Web site: Recipients . https://web.archive.org/web/20190127035349/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/flanagan_rl.pdf . dead . January 27, 2019 . . PDF. 2020-08-14.
2. Web site: Hermann Ney - Engineering and Technology History Wiki. ethw.org.