Project Grant N629092112061

Northwestern University was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to develop new methods for analyzing acoustic variation in speech using unsupervised deep learning techniques. The goal is to discover a representational space for speech that captures subtle but meaningful differences in pronunciation in a holistic manner similar to human speech perception abilities. The university will apply these methods to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award No. 2504019 for $821,902 provides funding to Carnegie Mellon University to develop a powerful AI model called the Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Model (POWSM). The goal is to create a speech-to-text system that can accurately transcribe pronunciation across different language varieties, even when little digital training data is available. The project will leverage systematic...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop brain-machine interfaces for speech decoding. The project aims to restore the ability to communicate through speech for individuals who have lost it due to conditions like ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury. The key objectives are to collect large amounts of intracranial electroencephalography...

The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California for collaborative research titled "Flexible Deep Speech Synthesis through Gestural Modeling." The three-year award runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The research aims to advance development of flexible deep speech synthesis through gestural modeling, in alignment with the goals of the Computer and Information...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying speech production. The project aims to generate a functional map of the brain systems that enable fluent speech, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of speech production deficits. The $965,471 award, effective August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026,...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $377,764 will fund a collaborative research project at Gettysburg College to develop a novel AI model for improving speech-to-text transcription across language varieties. The project aims to create a "Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Model" (POWSM) that can recognize speech as sequences of sounds (phones) in any language, enabling the development of...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $429,000 to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. to conduct research aimed at enhancing language recovery and quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia (SWA). The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing a causal relationship between neural...

This Project Grant award, worth $270,520.00, was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173). The project aims to generate a sensitive, quantitative metric of vocal communication for minimally-speaking individuals by tracking their phonological vocalization complexity over time. The principal investigator will enroll 90 individuals aged 6-35 years...

This $428,883 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) aims to examine the effects of individualized transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on phonological short-term memory performance in chronic stroke survivors with aphasia. The key objectives are to identify optimal tACS targets, frequency, and electric field coverage based on...