Block Grant H982300910319

This $1,051,622 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the creation of crucial training datasets to advance inclusive speech recognition technologies for underrepresented American language dialects and variants. The goal is to develop speech-to-text capabilities that can recognize over 350 languages and dialects spoken in the U.S., enabling greater access to critical services across...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is for the development of an Intelligent Language Learning Environment platform by Pangea Chat LLC. The project aims to create a novel language learning solution grounded in learning science and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to make language learning more accessible, inclusive, and socially engaging. Key product goals include...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $299,963 aims to destigmatize disfluencies in speech artificial intelligence (AI) by partnering with the grassroots stuttering community organization "StammerTalk". The key objectives are to: (a) develop metrics, tools, and techniques to measure and address fluency biases in existing automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, and (b) study StammerTalk's...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of an innovative AI-driven platform for interactive language-learning targeted at young children with communication delays. The $303,226 award aims to create an adaptive solution that combines speech recognition algorithms, progress tracking, and personalized learning activities to enhance speech development and reduce the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,576 to develop a universal platform for delivering educational content in multiple languages and cultural contexts. The primary technical objective is to create a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model capable of handling the unique linguistic features of low-resourced languages, leveraging limited data, and incorporating cultural and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA 47.084 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program provides $448,129 to the Trustees of Indiana University to develop crucial training datasets, predominantly optimized for speech recognition (speech-to-text), for three underrepresented American sociolinguistic contexts: a sociolect, a code-switching language context, and an indigenous language. The methodology for co-creating these datasets with...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $358,451 Project Grant under the Indian Education National Activities (State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) and Native American Language (NAL)) program (CFDA 84.415) to Painted Desert Demonstration Projects, Inc., doing business as The Star School, located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The grant, titled "DINE BIZAAD BEE OLT'A BIYI HOZHO'O OH'HO'AAH': INTEGRATING DINE LANGUAGE INTO ALL OF OUR...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to ESM Global Productions, LLC to develop an advanced AI-powered translation platform for African languages. This 2-year project aims to create a robust database and novel machine learning models to significantly enhance translation accuracy and nuance for underrepresented African languages, addressing a critical gap in current technology....

This $56,465 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a multi-year study analyzing the determinants that shape language restoration and development within communities. The research aims to provide empirical data to test current hypotheses and theoretical discussions on the emergence and formalization of language, including its grammatical forms,...

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...