IARPA’s Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments challenge will give participants access to sample microphone data for ASR platform testing, the agency said Tuesday.
âBuilding speech recognition systems that work well on speech recorded in mismatched noisy, reverberant environments is essential for many intelligence community missions,” said Mary Harper, a program manager at IARPA.
âSpeech recognition technology performs best when the data used to train a system matches the data used to evaluate it,â Harper added.
Evaluation of single-microphone ASpIRE systems will run from Feb. 4-11, 2015, with assessment for multimicrophone platforms to be held the following week.
The agency will award $30,000 and $20,000 to the winning participants in the single microphone and multimicrophone categories, respectively.