Project Grant R03HD068486

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...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary New York University received $167,304 in Project Grant funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), with the award date of May 21, 2025 and completion date of November 30, 2026. The project, titled "Enhancing AI-Based Speech Therapy Through Acoustic-Derived Articulatory Feedback," delivers advanced machine learning...

Grant Award Summary The University of Missouri System received a $577,136 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), awarded September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This research initiative investigates the role of the cerebellum in predictive motor control mechanisms underlying accurate speech production, with particular focus...

This federal Project Grant award of $681,385 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", supports research to develop and test a computational model that can quantitatively characterize the speech motor skills of individual speakers. The overarching goal is to better understand the key speech motor control processes, including auditory feedback control,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $457,873 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new technology that enhances communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The key objectives are to build and test a novel user interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavior...

This $178,992 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Georgia State University Research Foundation to improve speech technology for better learning outcomes among African American English-speaking children. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the three-year award aims to develop data augmentation and normalization techniques to increase the amount of training data available and improve automatic speech recognition performance for this...

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 Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173) to Emory University for the project "Deconstructing Voice Therapy: Towards Enhanced Communication Outcomes". The $947,128 grant, awarded on April 4, 2025, will support research to optimize behavioral voice therapy by evaluating the impact of a non-hierarchical therapy approach called...

The University of Southern California will receive $1.2 million under a four-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on structured variability in vocal tract articulation dynamics during speech. The grant is part of NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which supports research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Through May 2027, USC researchers will use advanced magnetic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to develop a computational model that mimics how the human brain detects and repairs speech errors. The $686,537 project, awarded to Trustees of Indiana University, will build the largest publicly available multilingual database of speech errors and repairs across four languages - English,...