SBIR/STTR Research Award
Handheld Transcription Device for the Hearing Impaired
Award amount
$99,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS COMPANY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-03-06
- Contract end date
- 2008-10-31
- UEI
- C12TQVKF5413
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- SB072-014
Research abstract
We propose the melding of various technologies for our unique handheld transcription device for speech and speaker recognition. Our solution will utilize beam-forming coupled with the POCKETSPHINX speech recognizer to provide transcription on the hand-held device. To achieve further reduction in recognition error rate through robustness to background noise and environment conditions we will combine multi-channel signal enhancement techniques such as blind source separation with single-channel signal enhancement techniques such as spectral subtraction and feature enhancement techniques such as cepstrum normalization. An initial design of our prototype transcription device is also presented.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Robust and Autonomous Management of Mission Systems (RAMMS)
- AI-Aided Design (A2D)
- ASTAR-ASP: ADS-B Signal Transmission Authenticity Reckoner with Advanced Signal Processing
- PATCHWork: Processing and Analytic Task Coordination across Host Workers
- 3DMAST: Multimodal Accurate and Robust Novel View Synthesis for Ship Classification
Awards with the same topic code
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- Handheld Transcription Device for the Hearing Impaired
- Handheld Transcription Device for the Hearing Impaired
- A Practical Transcription System for the Hearing Impaired
- Handheld Transcription Device for the Hearing Impaired
Research funding history
464 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2025). Reported award amounts total $186,567,405. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security