Project Grant H982301010110

This $1,051,622 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "REDDOT Phase 2: Inclusive American Language Technologies" led by the Mozilla Foundation. The project aims to create training datasets, predominantly for speech recognition (speech-to-text), for three underrepresented American sociolinguistic contexts:...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award for $448,129 to Trustees of Indiana University will create 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 project will build the agency, skills, and knowledge required for communities to use and...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $261,181 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The grant, awarded on July 1, 2025, will fund a multi-year study analyzing the determinants that shape language restoration and development efforts within communities. The research will utilize linguistic analyses, observations, interviews,...

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 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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project aims to develop a universal natural language processing (NLP) model designed specifically for low-resourced languages. The primary technical objective is to create an NLP model capable of handling unique linguistic features, leveraging limited data, and incorporating cultural and contextual nuances to reduce language barriers and increase...

This $358,451 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Indian Education National Activities (CFDA 84.415) program supports the "DINE BIZAAD BEE OLT'A BIYI HOZHO'O OH'HO'AAH': INTEGRATING DINE LANGUAGE INTO ALL OF OUR LEARNING" project. The grant recipient, Painted Desert Demonstration Projects, Inc. (doing business as The Star School), is a non-profit organization located in Flagstaff, Arizona that specializes in...

This $445,543 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports a project titled "LANGDIV: HNDS-R: TALKER-SPECIFIC, LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC, AND LANGUAGE-GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRST-LANGUAGE AND SECOND-LANGUAGE SPEECH" at Northwestern University. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Develop a unique publicly available digital speech resource with...