Janet M. Baker was Chairman/CEO and Co-Founder of Dragon Systems. Founded by James Baker and Janet Baker in 1982 with $30K savings, Dragon grew debt-free to nearly 400 employees and $70 million/yr revenue before its stock sale in 2000. Dragon Systems introduced the world's first general-purpose speech dictation/transcription software, Dragon NaturallySpeaking® in 1997. Dragon Systems also invented audiomining, the first search engine for audio, in many world languages over diverse audio channels. Acclaimed for its worldwide performance and market leadership, Dragon's technology has continued to be successfully incorporated globally into leading applications, incl. Apple's "Siri", desktop dictation software, cloud-based services, healthcare systems, major automotive navigation/control systems, smart TVs, smartphone apps, etc., with hundreds of millions of users. For many years Janet has advised international government, academic, and corporate entities on entrepreneurship, high tech strategy, planning, assessment, etc. She guest lectures on entrepreneurship and innovation at major business schools (Babson College-HEC/Paris, Harvard, MIT Sloan, etc.). During the past 15 years, Janet has been collaborating with neuroscientists at Harvard-MIT HST, UCSD, BU, etc., pursuing fundamental research, especially in the time-domain, to analyze mechanisms for 1) how the human brain controls and processes information such as acoustics, speech, language, music, etc., using machine learning, etc., and to discover 2) how info is learned, integrated, processed, and retained/retrieved for perception, cognition, other functions and behaviors. As an MIT Research Affiliate, she collaborates with MIT Media Lab to create novel user interfaces, including wearable devices and generative AI, to augment cognition and expand human/machine capabilities.
Listed skills include Speech Recognition, Start Ups, Machine Learning, Entrepreneurship, and 17 others.
