Project description DEENESFRITPL AI for advanced speech processing Speech processing technologies are key for a range of business applications. The EU-funded ESPERANTO project holds that the next generation of AI algorithms used in speech processing should be more accessible. For instance, they should integrate human involvement in the loop and be decipherable to allow sensitive applications and preserve personal data. ESPERANTO envisages spreading these technologies to European SMEs, and expanding and securing their implementation for forensic, health and education purposes. The project will support the development of open-source tools, produce seminars on different speech processing themes to support new speech-AI students, researchers and engineers, and assist in the collection and sharing of linguistic and speech resources. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The ESPERANTO project aims at pushing speech processing technologies to their next step in order to enable the diffusion of these technologies in European SMEs and to maximize and securize their use in the civil society for forensic, health or education. The ESPERANTO consortium forsees that the next generation of artificial intelligence algorithms for speech processing should :1. be more accessible : via a larger number of spoken languages, and for applications where resources are strongly limited (health, education, robotics…);2. integrate a human in the loop to guaranty a higher usability and ease of deployment and maintenance;3. be explainable in order to enable sensitive applications related to forensic or health and contribute to personal data preservation by detecting and characterizing existing biases due to the data-driven nature of current speech technologies.ESPERANTO intends to lead the scientific community by releasing evaluation metrics, protocols and standards that will boost the development and evaluation of this new generation of algorithms. To achieve this ambitious goal, the ESPERANTO project gathers a large and trans-sectorial community of experts in speech related applications such as speech transcription, separation, enhancement, translation, understanding and speaker recognition and diarization to transfer knowledge, organize, produce and standardize resources with the aim of catalyzing and cross-pollenizing this area.The main goals of the ESPERANTO project are:- support the development of open-source tools that will encourage fast developement, exchanges and reproducibility;- produce tutorials and competitive baselines on various topics of speech processing in order to boost the fostering of new speech-AI students, researchers and engineers;- facilitate the collection and sharing of linguistic and speech resources through standards;- organize workshops to progress on the speech technologies and favor tranfer of knowledge. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencesocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Keywords Speech processing neural networks explainability human assisted learning low resources natural language processing standardization evaluation Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.3. - Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of knowledge Topic(s) MSCA-RISE-2020 - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Coordinator UNIVERSITE DU MANS Net EU contribution € 335 800,00 Address Avenue olivier messiaen 72085 Le mans France See on map Region Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire Sarthe Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE METROLOGIE ET D'ESSAIS France Net EU contribution € 36 800,00 Address Rue gaston boissier 1 75724 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE Czechia Net EU contribution € 230 000,00 Address Antoninska 548/1 601 90 Brno stred See on map Region Česko Jihovýchod Jihomoravský kraj Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA Spain Net EU contribution € 184 000,00 Address Calle pedro cerbuna 12 50009 Zaragoza See on map Region Noreste Aragón Zaragoza Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES France Net EU contribution € 101 200,00 Address 621 avenue centrale 38058 Grenoble See on map Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes Isère Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 AVIGNON UNIVERSITE France Net EU contribution € 188 600,00 Address Rue louis pasteur 74 84029 Avignon cedex 01 See on map Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Vaucluse Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 13 800,00 Address Firth court western bank S10 2TN Sheffield See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber South Yorkshire Sheffield Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 GROUPE ALLO MEDIA France Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address 32 rue de la bienfaisance 75008 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ELYADATA Tunisia Net EU contribution € 32 200,00 Address 32 avenue habib bourguiba 2080 Ariana See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 OMILIA MONOPROSOPI ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS PAROXIS PLIROFORIKON, TILEPIKOINONIAKON KAI FONITIKON YPIRESION KAI SYSTIMATON Greece Net EU contribution € 27 600,00 Address Efkalipton 2 151 26 Marousi See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Αττική Aττική Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 PHONEXIA SRO Czechia Net EU contribution € 41 400,00 Address Chaloupkova 3002/1a 612 00 Brno See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Česko Jihovýchod Jihomoravský kraj Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Partners (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. UNIVERSITE DE YAOUNDE I Cameroon Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address . Yaounde See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 142 600,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET) Argentina Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Godoy cruz 2290 C1425FQB Buenos aires See on map Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 110 400,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE Chile Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Av. libertador bernardo o'higgins 1058 10 Santiago See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 32 200,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. CENTRO DE APLICACIONES TECNOLOGICAS DE AVANZADA Cuba Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calle 7ma no 21812 entre 218 y 222 playa 12200 La habana See on map Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 138 000,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Malaysia Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kota samarahan sarawak 94300 Kota samarahan See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 46 000,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA* Malaysia Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Minden 11800 Penang See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 23 000,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY United States Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address North charles street 3400 21218 Baltimore See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. MILA INSTITUT QUEBECOIS D INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE Canada Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address 200-6666 saint-urbain street H2S3H1 Montreal See on map Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00