SBIR/STTR Research Award
PHONEME RECOGNITION AND DISPLAY
Award amount
$52,138Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Syneuronix
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
CONSIDERATION OF NEURALAND COCHLEA-BASED MODELS OF AUDITORY PROCESSING SUGGEST ANALOG PROCESSES THAT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED TO DEMONSTRATE: (1) A SPECTRAL SHAPE BASIS FOR PHONEME RECOGNITION; (2) ROBUST RECOGNITION OF PHONEME CLASSES; (3) SPEAKER INDEPENDENCE; AND (4) VOICE-SYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING. DEMONSTRATIONS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED ON AN IBM-COMPATIBLE PC USING NOVEL DISPLAY MECHANISMS THAT DIRECTLY PORTRAY THE PHONEME CONTENT OF SPEECH AS A FUNCTION OF TIME. THE EFFORT INVOLVES DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SPECTRAL PROCESSING CARD THAT INSTALLS IN A COMPUTER ACCESSORY SLOT AND FOUR SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS IMPLEMENTED USING THE APL LANGUAGE.
Technology keywords
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