The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $239,580 project grant to Gettysburg College on December 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research to improve techniques of automatic speech recognition and transfer learning using documentary linguistic corpora under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $154,156 to the University of Oregon to conduct research on how people adapt to differences in speech production across speakers. The project examines the role of learned selective attention in enabling listeners to rapidly adjust to novel speech accents. The research combines computational modeling and behavioral experimentation to test key predictions...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Illinois on February 15, 2022. The grant will support research to develop new evaluation and training paradigms for inclusive automatic speech recognition over a three-year period ending January 31, 2025. Specifically, the university will create open-source black-box and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $265,830 project grant to Michigan State University on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2025. The grant falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources. Under this award, Michigan State University will build infrastructure for collecting longitudinal speech...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $160,000 in funding to support an early career scientist developing a framework for process-level models of human language comprehension. The goal is to bridge the gap between human language behavior and computational models by analyzing incremental language processing behavior, particularly in response to imperfect input, and implementing models to...
This $249,318 National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences award funds a two-year project from August 2021 to July 2023 titled "Computational Methods for Speech Analysis." The Washington University is the primary awardee, with subawards to the University of Pennsylvania. The project extends existing computational speech analysis packages and applies them to new datasets, including campaign speeches and police body-worn camera footage. It involves extracting...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $186,479 to Oregon State University to study multilingual speech recognition in the human brain. Researchers will record neural responses from monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual individuals as they listen to speech in languages they understand. They will use tools from computational neuroscience to develop cognitive theories and neural network models...
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $269,902 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund a collaborative research project between Penn State University and other institutions to enhance speech science training through investigating perception of variable speech signals. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research into probing the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and comparing them to human cognition during speech recognition. The $50,000 award to the University of Southern California (USC) will fund the development of novel mathematical models and experimental methods to examine how AI...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $260,147 will fund research at the University of Washington from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessment tools for young speakers of African American English to enhance early education outcomes. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and normalization...