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US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition

Posted by samzenpus on from the unseen-mechanized-ear dept.

coondoggie writes The $50,000 challenge comes from researchers at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The competition, known as Automatic Speech recognition in Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE), hopes to get the industry, universities or other researchers to build automatic speech recognition technology that can handle a variety of acoustic environments and recording scenarios on natural conversational speech.

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  1. How about this one? by korbulon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Go fuck yourself."