Project Grant R41DC013916

This federal 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), is funding the development of a deep learning-based speech enhancement algorithm to improve speech intelligibility for people with hearing loss in noisy environments. The $292,543 award to Omnispeech, LLC, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026, aims to create a...

This $947,128 federal 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), is funding research to optimize voice therapy for individuals with hyperfunctional voice disorders. The primary goal is to enhance long-term communication outcomes by evaluating a novel non-hierarchical voice therapy approach called Conversation Training Therapy (CTT), which focuses...

This Project Grant award, funded 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), is supporting the development of a real-time speech enhancement and noise reduction software application for the hearing impaired. The $313,372 award to Neural Ear Inc. aims to implement state-of-the-art neural networks to perform noise reduction on mobile devices like the Apple iPhone,...

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), provides $295,840 to The House Institute Foundation to conduct research on real-time speech processing in children with normal hearing and those using hearing aids. The study will use eye-tracking technology to examine the effects of background noise, such as speech-shaped noise and two-talker speech,...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under its Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), awarded a $292,694 project grant to Silicon Audio RF Circulator, LLC (doing business as Silicon Audio, LLC) to develop high signal-to-noise ratio miniature microphones for hearing assistive devices. The project, running from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026, aims to leverage advances in single-crystal lithium...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $390,585 Project Grant to The Ohio State University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "DEEP LEARNING BASED COMPLEX SPECTRAL MAPPING FOR MULTI-CHANNEL SPEAKER SEPARATION AND SPEECH ENHANCEMENT." This three-year award, effective August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024, will support the development of deep learning techniques to separate and enhance speech from multi-channel recordings. The Engineering...

This federal 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), provides $570,473.00 to Emory University for research on objective diagnostic measures to distinguish between adductor laryngeal dystonia (ADLD) and primary muscle tension dysphonia (PMTD). The key research objectives are to: 1) Investigate the underlying physiology of creak, a vocal...

The University of Connecticut was awarded a $333,935 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders grant program (CFDA 93.173), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030. The grant supports research to understand the neural mechanisms underlying human speech recognition in the presence of natural environmental noises, such as competing talkers, wind, rain, and...

This federal 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), provides $585,999.00 to the University of South Florida to conduct research on improving speech understanding for individuals with cochlear implants in the presence of background noise. The research aims to examine how spatial cues can support communication by exploring the interactions...