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Recognition of Non-Native Speakers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W15P7T-09-C-S016
Agency Tracking Number: A082-085-0653
Amount: $119,992.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A08-085
Solicitation Number: 2008.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-01-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-03-01
Small Business Information
30 A Vreeland Road, Suite 130
Florham Park, NJ 07932
United States
DUNS: 125624432
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Qi (Peter) Li
 Presidnet
 (973) 822-0048
 li@licreativetech.com
Business Contact
 Qi Li
Title: President
Phone: (973) 822-0048
Email: li@licreativetech.com
Research Institution
N/A
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.

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