SBIR/STTR Research Award
Expanded Speech Recognition to Include Foreign Accents
Award amount
$99,983Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PERL RESEARCH LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-05-20
- Contract end date
- 2004-11-20
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- AF04-062
Research abstract
PERL Research, LLC proposes to design and implement a computationally efficient algorithm to recognize a particular foreign accent. This algorithm will map the input speech on to a normalized speech that is highly recognizable by one of the most widely used off-the-shelf speech recognition systems such as IBM ViaVoice, Dragon NaturallySpeacking, Philips FreeSpeech, or L&H Voice Express. Although our initial algorithm is intended to recognize Russian accent, with additional research, it could be improved to include additional accents, speaker authentication, and improving real-time communication across foreign language. In addition, research will be performed on feasibility of mapping a normalized speech to a particular accent.
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