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Speech Processing Pioneer Bishnu Saroop Atal Dies at 93
Bishnu Saroop Atal Acoustics and signal processing pioneer Life Fellow, 93; died 19 August Atal was an acoustics and signal processing researcher at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and later at AT&T ’s Shannon Laboratory, in Florham Park, N.J. His pioneering work on voice-coding techniques became the foundation for efficient, high-quality voice transmission over cellular networks. He received the 2013 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for “fundamental and pioneering contributions to speech coding.” He joined Bell Labs in 1961 as a communications researcher, and his early work there focused on speaker identification technology. During the 1960s he helped develop linear predictive coding , a powerful method for analyzing and compressing speech. LPC is now the most widely used method for encoding speech at a low bit rate. Atal developed increasingly sophisticated low-bit-rate speec
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Bishnu Saroop Atal Acoustics and signal processing pioneer Life Fellow, 93; died 19 August Atal was an acoustics and signal processing researcher at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and later at AT&T ’s Shannon Laboratory, in Florham Park, N.J. His pioneering work on voice-coding techniques became the foundation for efficient, high-quality voice transmission over cellular networks. He received the 2013 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for “fundamental and pioneering contributions to speech coding.” He joined Bell Labs in 1961 as a communications researcher, and his early work there focused on speaker identification technology. During the 1960s he helped develop linear predictive coding , a powerful method for analyzing and compressing speech. LPC is now the most widely used method for encoding speech at a low bit rate. Atal developed increasingly sophisticated low-bit-rate speec
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, Speech Processing Pioneer Bishnu Saroop Atal Dies at 93, Bishnu Saroop Atal Acoustics and signal processing pioneer Life Fellow, 93; died 19 August Atal was an acoustics and signal processing researcher at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and later at AT&T ’s Shannon Laboratory, in Florham Park, N.J. His pioneering work on voice-coding techniques became the foundation for efficient, high-quality voice transmission over cellular networks. He received the 2013 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for “fundamental and pioneering contributions to speech coding.” He joined Bell Labs in 1961 as a communications researcher, and his early work there focused on speaker identification technology. During the 1960s he helped develop linear predictive coding , a powerful method for analyzing and compressing speech. LPC is now the most widely used method for encoding speech at a low bit rate. Atal developed increasingly sophisticated low-bit-rate speec
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