Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77
Sadaoki FuruiSpeech processing pioneerLife Fellow, 77; died 31 JulyFurui was a leading speech processing researcher who played an important role in improving communication between humans and machines. Michael N. Geselowitz, senior director of the IEEE History Center, describes him as a “pillar in the speech processing community.” Furui was best known for investigating human perception of transient sounds in the 1980s as a researcher at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone…
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