IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award

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
 * 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