Outreach

CSLR works hard to bring the benefits of speech and language technologies to others. Our outreach activities include:
 

Diverse Suite of NLP Demos

Several natural language processing (NLP) tools have been developed at CSLR in research projects funded by ARDA and NSF. The "Diverse Suite of NLP Demos" introduces a number of those tools. The goal is to illustrate how various NLP technologies are working. Click here to play and become familiar with various NLP technologies. Although some of those have achieved state-of-the-art performances, they are not perfect technologies! Try to understand their limitations and think about how their performances could be made better. Have fun!

SONIC: Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System

SONIC is a large vocabulary speech recognition system used in a number of research projects at CSLR. The software is being made available for non-commercial use. Executables are provided for Linux (kernel 2.2/2.4), MS Windows, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X. For more information about speech recognition research at CSLR and the SONIC LVCSR system (click here)

Free distribution of the CU Communicator system

CU's Communicator system and Conversational Agent Toolkit support research and development of advanced dialogue systems. These tools and technologies are freely distributed to researchers worldwide.

Distribution of Speech Corpora

CSLR develops annotated speech corpora in support of its research projects. These corpora are distributed to university researchers for internal research purposes at reduced rates relative to companies. Click here to view costs for individual corpora.

International Collaboration

CSLR plays an active role in stimulating and sustaining international collaboration in computers science. CSLR currently collaborates with researchers in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Poland and Turkey. CSLR's International Summer Workshop 2003 provides one example of CSLR's efforts to support international collaboration.

Helping Children Learn

Grants from the National Science Foundation support research and development of language training applications that are now being used to help children with reading problems, including profoundly deaf children, children with autism, and children with dyslexia. Newly developed learning tools are currently being piloted by children in the Boulder Valley School District. The technologies and applications developed during these projects are freely distributed to educational institutions.

Under support from an NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development grant, CSLR faculty and colleagues at other universities are developing a set of laboratory courses covering the major areas in human language technology. These include speech recognition, natural language understanding, language generation, speech synthesis, dialogue modeling and the design and implementation of multimedia applications for language training. The courses, which incorporate state of the art speech and language systems, will be freely distributed to educational institutions.