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Speech Pioneer Bishnu Saroop Atal Dies
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Acoustics pioneer Bishnu Saroop Atal died on 19 August at age 93. His work at Bell Labs developed linear predictive coding, which remains the most widely used method for encoding speech at low bit rates. He later received the 2013 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for his fundamental contributions to speech coding.
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