Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) - Babel Program

The Program will develop agile and robust speech recognition technology that can be rapidly applied to any human language in order to provide effective search capability for analysts to efficiently process massive amounts of real-world recorded speech. Today’s transcription systems are built on technology that was originally developed for English… Babel intends to demonstrate the ability to generate a speech transcription system for any new language… in challenging real-world situations.

* Foreign participants may participate, but offerors must have at least one team member that is a U.S. organization or institution.