Lalit Bahl
his work in the field of automatic speech recognition
- was a key member of the IBM research team that developed the hidden Markov model for speech recognition
- his work has had a lasting impact on the field of speech recognition and its applications
Lalit Bahl was an Indian computer scientist known for his contributions to the development of speech recognition technology.
Milestones
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1986Expert Systems and the Knowledge Boom Research
IBM's speech recognition team, led by Fred Jelinek, proved that statistical methods could understand human speech better than any linguistic approach — famously quipping that firing linguists improved the system.