Recognition of Non-Native Speakers

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense	Branch: Army	Award ID: 87208	Program Year/Program: 2008 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number: A082-085-0653	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 1: Fiscal Year: 2008

Title: Recognition of Non-Native Speakers

Agency / Branch: DOD / ARMY

Contract: W15P7T-09-C-S016

Award Amount: $69,931.00

Abstract:
We propose a novel and promising non-native speaker recognition system by using both high-level language cues and low-level acoustic accent cues. The system consists of a high-level language cue based sub-system and four accent recognition based sub-systems. Each sub-system can be used individually or together via system fusion. The novelty and uniqueness of our proposed approach are as follows: First, it utilizes both high-level language cues and low-level accent cues, which will largely improve the robustness; Second, it employs a new concept of accent signature, that is to be learned in a completely data-driven fashion, which guarantees portability across different accents; Third, it applies various system fusion approaches which guarantees improved overall performance.

Principal Investigator:
Qi Li
Presidnet
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