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), will fund a $270,520 research project at Northeastern University. The goal is to generate a sensitive, quantitative metric of vocal communication for minimally-speaking individuals by tracking their phonological vocalization complexity over time using a custom smartphone app. The project...
This $608,826 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support the development of a new wireless, skin-conformable, and dual-sensing wearable system to monitor voice and upper airway health conditions. The wearable system will leverage neck surface accelerometry and surface electromyography to provide comprehensive physiological...
This seven hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred sixty dollar National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of next-generation augmentative and alternative communication technology powered by artificial intelligence. Under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the University of Arkansas will lead a collaborative effort with Temple University to spearhead a new generation of AI-powered AAC devices through December 2023. The project aims to enhance...
This Project Grant award of $194,375 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant will support a research project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to develop and assess the effectiveness of a novel Speech Accessibility Index (SAI) for quantitatively evaluating preschool children's access to language in real-world environments. The project...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), awarded Duke University a $201,250 Project Grant (R21DC022378) to examine precursors to language impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The project aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment of infant cognition to test three proposed mechanisms of language impairment in ASD: atypical speech perception,...
This 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 investigate whether service workers can better comprehend the language of individuals with aphasia when they have first reviewed an aphasia identification card. The $404,212 award to the University of Massachusetts will conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess how the aphasia...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under CFDA program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", aims to build and test computational models of the neural basis of natural communication. The $409,280 award to Princeton University, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2029, will create the "24/7 Conversations" dataset - a 750-hour collection of continuous...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", will fund research on the neural mechanisms underlying speech perception in the human brain. The $579,622 award, with a project period from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029, will support studies aimed at understanding whether neural computations in the cortex are primarily yoked...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", is focused on developing a real-time noise reduction and speech enhancement software application for the hearing impaired. The $313,372 award, spanning from March 2025 to March 2026, will enable the awardee Neural Ear Inc. to implement state-of-the-art neural networks to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $295,825 to Applied Universal Dynamics, Corp to develop a machine learning-based smartphone software system to enhance speech and reduce background noise for over-the-counter hearing aid devices. The goal is to improve the accessibility, affordability, and acceptance of hearing aid technologies for underserved rural and minority populations. The award period runs from August 2024 to...