Project description DEENESFRITPL The future of voice interaction technology is now Voice-operated technologies have made great strides in recent years. In fact, voice is fast replacing touch and text as the main means of interaction with modern devices. In this context, the EU-funded COMPRISE project will develop the next-generation voice interaction technology. Its aim is to reduce the related costs of voice data collection and labelling for a variety of languages to make it more inclusive. Currently, voice interaction technologies have a strong bias in favour of English and other languages with a wider user base. The sustainability of this new ecosystem, which will service speakers of under resourced languages or accented speakers, will be demonstrated for three sectors with high commercial impact: smart consumer apps, e-commerce, and e-health. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Besides visual and tactile, the Next Generation Internet will rely more and more on voice interaction. This technology requires huge amounts of speech and language data in every language to reach state-of-the-art performance. The standard today is to store the voices of end users in the cloud and label them manually. This approach raises critical privacy concerns, it limits the number of deployed languages, and it has led to market and data concentration in the hands of big non-European companies such as Google, Facebook, etc.COMPRISE defines a fully private-by-design methodology and tools that will reduce the cost and increase the inclusiveness of voice interaction technology through research advances on privacy-driven data transformations, personalised learning, automatic labelling, and integrated translation. This leads to a holistic easy-to-use software development kit interoperating with a cloud-based resource platform. The sustainability of this new ecosystem will be demonstrated for three sectors with high commercial impact: smart consumer apps, e-commerce, and e-health. COMPRISE will address the mission-oriented challenges of privacy-by-design, inclusiveness, and cost-effectiveness in a sector-agnostic way; allow virtually unlimited collection of real-life non-private quality speech and language data; enable businesses in the Digital Single Market to quickly develop multilingual voice-enabled services in many languages; allow all citizens to transparently access contents and services available in other languages by voice interaction in their own language; result in cost savings for both technology providers and users.COMPRISE will find application in many sectors beyond those demonstrated, e.g. e-government, e-justice, e-learning, tourism, culture, media, etc. It will have a huge societal impact in terms of unprecedented verifiable privacy guarantees, service to speakers of under-resourced languages or accented speakers, and overall user experience. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealthnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware developmentsocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commercesocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemse-governance Keywords Spoken interaction privacy-by-design personalisation weakly supervised learning deep learning Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Main Programme Topic(s) ICT-29-2018 - A multilingual Next Generation Internet Call for proposal H2020-ICT-2018-20 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-ICT-2018-2 Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE Net EU contribution € 789 790,00 Address DOMAINE DE VOLUCEAU ROCQUENCOURT 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines 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 Total cost € 881 740,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE France Net EU contribution € 29 450,00 Address COURS LEOPOLD 34 54052 Nancy Cedex See on map Region Grand Est Lorraine Meurthe-et-Moselle 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 Total cost € 29 450,00 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. UNIVERSITE DE LILLE France Net EU contribution € 62 500,00 Address 42 RUE PAUL DUEZ 59000 Lille See on map Region Hauts-de-France Nord-Pas de Calais Nord 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 Total cost € 62 500,00 UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES Germany Net EU contribution € 608 101,00 Address CAMPUS 66123 Saarbrucken See on map Region Saarland Saarland Regionalverband Saarbrücken 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 Total cost € 608 101,25 NETFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY SA France Net EU contribution € 400 875,00 Address 6-8 AVENUE DE VERDUN 1916 92250 La Garenne Colombes 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 Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Hauts-de-Seine 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 Total cost € 400 875,00 ASCORA GMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 543 050,00 Address BIRKENALLEE 43 27777 Ganderkesee 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 Niedersachsen Weser-Ems Oldenburg, Landkreis 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 Total cost € 543 050,00 TILDE SIA Latvia Net EU contribution € 561 000,00 Address VIENIBAS GATVE 75 A LV-1004 Riga 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 Latvija Latvija Rīga Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding 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 Total cost € 561 000,00 ROOTER ANALYSIS SL Spain Net EU contribution € 206 250,00 Address CALLE SEPULVEDA 15 28100 Alcobendas 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 Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid 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 Total cost € 206 250,00
