Lawrence Rabiner

Lawrence R. Rabiner ( born September 28, 1943 in Brooklyn ) is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who deals with digital signal processing, automatic speech synthesis and speech recognition.

Rabiner studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in 1964 and his doctorate in 1967. Afterwards he went to the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, where in 1985 he was Head of Department, Director 1990 and 1995 Vice President. He became a Fellow of Bell Labs in 1989. After the split in 1996, he worked at AT & T Labs and served there as director of the Laboratory for speech and image processing. In 1998, he was at AT & T Labs Vice President of Research, 2002, he went into retirement. After that, he taught at Rutgers University and at the same time at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He wrote some algorithms for digital filtering and digital spectral analysis as the chirp z- transform (1969 ), and various methods for the synthesis of FIR ( with methods of linear programming and Chebyshev filters).

He turned hidden Markov model methods in speech recognition, and developed one of the first digital voice synthesis at any text entry. The he developed at AT & T speech recognition systems such as the Vrcp ( Voice Recognition Call Processing) enabled the company by saving switchboard annual savings of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In 1980 he was awarded with Ronald W. Schafer IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award and 1999 IEEE Jack S. Kilby the Signal Processing Medal. In 1999 he received the IEEE Millennium Medal in 1984 and the IEEE Centennial Award. He is IEEE Fellow (1976) and Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. In 1983 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and in 1990 the National Academy of Sciences. He was President of the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society and Vice President of the Acoustical Society of America. He was editor of the ASSP Transactions, and was in the editorial board of the IEEE Proceedings.

Writings

  • A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition, Proceedings of the IEEE, 1989, pp. 257-286
  • Bernard Gold Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing, Prentice- Hall 1975
  • Ronald E. Crochiere Multirate Digital Signal Processing, Prentice- Hall 1983
  • With Biing - Hwang Juang Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Prentice- Hall 1993
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