EOARD

Official name: Improving the capacity of language recognition systems to handle rare languages using radio broadcast data

Official website: www.london.af.mil

Abstract:
The research aim in project is to develop an automatic system that obtains recordings from public broadcasts and automatically detects telephone calls. This data will be used for training and evaluation of LRE systems (acoustic and phonotactic).

BUT research task:
BUT is the only research site in this project and is responsible for all tasks in the project: Acquisition and selection of the data, Training and testing in LRE systems and Experiments with channel compensation techniques.

Principal Investigator: Lukáš Burget
Co-investigators: Jan Černocký, Valiantsina Hubeika, Pavel Matějka, Oldřich Plchot, Petr Schwarz

Grant agency:
This project is financed by the US Air Force European Office of Aerospace Research & Development (EOARD) Grant # 083066. Phase 1 of the project: 15/10/2008 - 14/04/2009. Phase 2 of the project: 15/04/2009 – 14/12/2010.

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