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限制无障碍环境和阻止口语技术广泛使用的一些障碍。特别是，当今技术缺乏可移植性意味着应用程序开发需要为每个新任务进行大量工程设计。因此，高昂的费用和所需的专门知识水平将研究和开发活动限制在少数几个专门实验室。 为解决这一可携带性问题，与普埃布拉美洲大学建立了伙伴关系。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，以改进工具包所依赖的技术。 这项工作的结果将使许多人受益。 我们计划免费向美国和墨西哥的学术机构提供由此产生的工具包和资源。反过来，这将通过允许人们快速设计、构建和实验口语系统来促进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.