Automated Objective Speech Intelligibility Assessment System

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense	Branch: Office for Chemical and Biological Defense	Award ID: 81817	Program Year/Program: 2008 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number: C071-106-0125	Solicitation Year: N/A	Solicitation Topic Code: N/A	Solicitation Number: N/A

Small Business Information: Li Creative Technologies
25 B Hanover Road, Suite 140 Florham Park, NJ -
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Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No

Phase 2: Fiscal Year: 2008

Title: Automated Objective Speech Intelligibility Assessment System

Agency / Branch: DOD / CBD

Contract: W911SR-08-C-0027

Award Amount: $749,939.00

Abstract:
Based on the success of our Phase I feasibility research, we propose to continue the project for the automated objective speech intelligibility assessment system. It consists of a pair of head and torso simulators placed at the same distance as typical face-to-face communication, a power amplifier, a laptop computer, a speech recognizer, and console software. The simulator has acoustic properties similar to those of a human and can wear any kinds of masks that need to be tested. The speech intelligibility is represented as a score associated with automatic speech recognition accuracy. Special techniques are proposed to construct robots as the simulator and to ensure results of the automatic assessment is similar to human subject assessment.

Principal Investigator:
Qi Li
President
9738220048
li@licreativetech.com

Business Contact:
Qi Li
President
9738220048
li@licreativetech.com

Small Business Information at Submission:

LI CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
30 A Vreeland Road, Suite 130 Florham Park, NJ 07932

EIN/Tax ID: 383667621

DUNS: N/A

Number of Employees:

Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No