CONACyT: Advancing Human Language Technology in Mexico and the United States Through Collaborative Research on Spoken Language Systems

该项目的目标是解决一些限制无障碍和阻止口语技术广泛使用的障碍。特别是，今天的技术缺乏可移植性，这意味着应用程序开发需要对每个新任务进行大量的工程设计。因此，高成本和高水平的专业知识将研究和开发活动限制在少数几个专门实验室。已经与普埃布拉美洲大学建立了伙伴关系，以解决这一便携性问题。通过合作研究和技术转让计划，我们正在开发一个综合工具包，用于学习、研究和开发英语和西班牙语的口语系统。这包括建立适当的基础设施、语言资源和教材，以及进行基础研究，以改进工具包背后的技术。这项工作的成果将使大量的人受益。我们计划通过向美国和墨西哥的学术机构免费提供所产生的工具包和资源来分发它们。反过来，这将通过允许人们快速设计、构建和试验口语系统来促进人们对口语技术的兴趣和理解。

The goals of this project are to address some of the barriers that limit accessibility and prevent widespread use of spoken language technology. In particular, the lack of portability of today's technology means that application development requires significant engineering for each new task. As a result, the high cost and level of expertise entailed restrict research and development activities to a handful of specialized laboratories. A partnership with the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla has been established to address this portability issue. Through a program of collaborative research and technology transfer, we are developing an integrated toolkit for learning about, researching and developing spoken language systems in both English and Spanish languages. This involves creating suitable infrastructure, language resources and teaching materials, as well as performing basic research to improve on the technology underlying the toolkit. The results of this work will benefit large numbers of people. We plan to distribute the resulting toolkit and resources by making them available at no cost to academic institutions throughout the United States and Mexico. This, in turn, will promote interest and understanding into spoken language technology by allowing people to rapidly design, build and experiment with spoken language systems.