PROJECTS

DESCRIPTIONS

Human-like Speech Processing

New directions in speech recognition through a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) (project abstract)
Project Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Project Team:
• University of Washington: Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchoff
• Stanford University: Dan Jurafsky, Chris Manning
• University of Southern California: Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan

Dynamics of Vocal Tract Shaping

Novel methods for studying human speech production using realtime magnetic resonance imaging (project abstract)
Project Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/NIDCD
Project Team:
• Dani Byrd, Sungbok Lee, Richard Leahy, Krishna Nayak, Shrikanth Narayanan (PI)

Training Superiority

Rapid Development of Mission-Oriented Communication Skills (project abstract)
Project Sponsor: DARPA/ONR
Faculty Collaborators
• PI : Lewis Johnson
• co-PIs : Dr. Eva Baker (UCLA CRESST), Dr. Ulf Hermjakob (USC/ISI), Dr. Edward Hovy (USC/ISI), COL Stephen LaRocca (US Military Academy), Ron Laughery (Micro Analysis and Design), Dr. Chistoph von der Malsburg (USC/LCBV), Dr. Stacy Marsella (USC/ISI), Dr. Shrikanth Narayanan (USC/IMSC), Hartmut Neven (Eyematic Interfaces), Dr. Harry O'Neil (USC Rossier School)

USC Transonic Solutions

http://sail.usc.edu/transonics

Enabling Human-Human Communication via Automated Two-way Speech-to-Speech Language Translation for critial domains such as medical triage (project abstract)
Initial Target Languages: English, Farsi
Project Sponsor: DARPA
Faculty Collaborators: Kevin Knight (ISI), Daniel Marcu (ISI), David Traum (ICT)
Industry Partner: HRL Labs, Malibu, CA

Content-based approach to Indexing, Query and
Retrieval of Music

http://sail.usc.edu/music

Through signal processing and knowledge-based methods (project abstract)
Project Sponsor: NSF-ITR
Faculty Collaborators: Elaine Chew (Industrial&Systems Engineering), C. C.  JayKuo (EE-Systems)

Toward natural child machine communication

http://sail.usc.edu/chimp

Spoken Language Interactions in Preschoolers: bridging linguistic, social, and technological challenges  (project abstract)
Project Sponsor: Zumberge Interdisciplinary Grant
Faculty Collaborators:  Elaine Andersen (Neuroscience/Psychology/Linguistics), Dani Byrd (Linguistics), Margaret McLaughlin (Annenberg School for Communication)

Prosody and Articulatory Dynamics in Spoken
Language

(project abstract)
Project Sponsor: NIH-R01
Faculty Collaborators:   Dani Byrd (Linguistics, PI), Elliot Saltzman (Boston University)

Robust Speech Processing for Immersive Interactions

Mission Rehearsal Exercise Project   (project abstract)
Project Sponsor: US Army/STRICOM
Faculty Collaborators:   Institute for Creative Technologies MRE Team - especially the Natural Language Processing Group:  Ed Hovy (ISI), Lewis Johnson (ISI), Kevin Knight (ISI), David Traum (ICT)

Automated Synthesis of Expressive Speech for
Military Training

(project abstract)
Project Sponsor: US Army/STRICOM
Faculty Collaborators:  Lewis Johnson (ISI)

Modeling and optimizing user-centric mixed-initiative
spoken dialog systems 

http://sail.usc.edu/dialog

(project abstract)
Project Sponsor: NSF-CAREER