SBIR-STTR Award

Standard Object Systems, Inc. proposes the adaptation of its Standard Objects for Phonetic Speech Recognition software to the development of a Software Package for Speaker Independent or Dependent Continuous Speech Recognition. This application supports both speaker independent and dependent connected word recognition with adaptation to multi lingual and multi accent environments. SOS has experience in complex speech recognition tasks and the control of equipment using speech commands using phonetic speech recognition object oriented C++ software that will be used to create a speech recognition system suitable to air traffic control training.

Benefits:
Low cost and high accuracy automatic speech recognition interface for commercial computer systems applications.

Keywords:
PHONETIC SPEECH RECOGNITION

Standard Object Systems, Inc. Phase I research outlined the requirements and design of an end to end phonetic speech recognition process for an ATC speech recognition software package. The effort has focused on expanding the existing SOS Standard Objects for Phonetic Speech Recognition technology to the design of innovative software for a speaker independent continuous speech recognition system that can exploit the current parallel digital signal processing and microcomputer technology. This software package will be developed in Phase II for the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division at Orlando, FL to use in speech recognition for air traffic control student training. It is a continuous speaker independent, software only, process to replace the current speaker dependent hardware based system.

Benefits:
The commercial market for speech recognition that is easy to use and operates on desktop computers without special hardware is estimated at over one billion dollars. Speech input to computers will become as common place in the future as a mouse, track ball, or keyboard.

Keywords:
phonetic speech recognition continuous speech speaker independent object oriented software air traffic control student training