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.

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

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