Project Grant 2538747
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $268,067 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to advance linguistic research through the development of speech technologies. The key products and services delivered under this 2-year award, which runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2027, include: Creation of benchmark datasets, comprehensive lexica, and advanced data...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $245,398 to support research estimating articulatory constriction place and timing from speech acoustics under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award funds development of a speech inversion tool to recover details of articulatory movements from acoustic speech recordings using machine learning methods. Researchers will extend...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $140,351 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROSODIC ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF PHONETIC SAMPLES FOR IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF STRESS AND INTONATION." The research will be conducted by the University of Washington from September 2021 through February 2025. The grant supports work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA...
- This $821,902 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports the development of a powerful AI model (POWSM) that can transcribe pronunciation using a universal system to represent sounds. The project, led by Carnegie Mellon University, aims to innovate speech recognition for low-resource language varieties by leveraging the predictable patterns in how pronunciations vary across different...
- This Project Grant award of $101,674 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to build a high-quality speech data set and transcription infrastructure for several low-data languages. The project, conducted by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), will create a 60-hour corpus of naturalistic and read speech data recorded in the field. It will leverage unsupervised and weakly supervised machine...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $354,310 CAREER grant to Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to build a digital phonological atlas charting the linguistic structures of an extensively used yet underexplored spoken language variety. The project, funded under NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will investigate how speech evolves over time and across different regions through linguistic interviews with 160...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles 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 assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.075) provides $160,000 over a 2-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports an early career postdoctoral researcher to investigate the mechanisms underlying perceptual learning and adaptation to accented speech. The research aims to shed light on how listeners can successfully adapt to the diversity of speech contexts encountered in...
- This $116,797 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to document, analyze, and revitalize a contact language that has undergone significant grammatical change. The project will record 40 hours of natural speech through sociolinguistic interviews and linguistic elicitation, transcribe and annotate the data, and develop an open-access digital corpus. Grounded in theories of...
This EAGER: HNDS-I: NEXT STEPS IN ACOUSTIC PHONETICS RESEARCH federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support the development of a new visualization application and software toolkit for research and teaching in speech communication. The $300,000 award, with a period of performance from September 15, 2025 to August 31, 2027, will fund two main activities: (1) writing and testing software for speech analysis, and (2) gathering input and guidance from leaders in academia and industry to ensure wide utility and adoption of the developed tools. This project aims to create a more modern software tool for acoustic phonetic research, building on existing libraries and leveraging Python programming language to develop a robust, cross-platform, and easily maintainable application. The software is expected to have broad applications in areas such as speech technology product development, clinical speech assessment and therapy, and teaching of speech communication, phonetics, and language sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/26/25 |