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Richard F. Lyon

About

Dick Lyon, author of the 2017 book Human and Machine Hearing: Extracting Meaning from Sound, has a long history of research and invention, including the optical mouse, speech and handwriting recognition, computational models of hearing, and color photographic imaging. At Google he worked on Street View camera systems, and is now focused on machine hearing technology and applications.

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