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I2R voiceprint technology clinches number one spot at US standards agency rankings Singapore, 15 August 2008 -- Ever wondered how pranksters who make hoax calls to emergency services can be identified and brought to justice? Now there’s a technology that can identify and spot the culprit easily by analyzing voices from a regular phone system that most people make phone calls from. A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) has invented a technology that can do just that! The Speech and Dialogue Processing team in I2R beat 45 other international institutions and topped the scores to emerge No. 1 in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2008 Speaker Recognition Evaluation. NIST’s annual benchmarking provides a worldwide platform for the calibration of speech technology capabilities participated by academia and the leading institutions from the industry. The benchmarking results recognize I2R’s voiceprint technology as the state-of-the-art technology in terms of accuracy through a series of tests using real-world data. The technology is now able to detect up to 97% accuracy between two voices as to ascertain whether they are from the same speaker. This allows for the verification of voiceprints for large scale deployment in adverse acoustic environments. Professor Lye Kin Mun, Deputy Executive Director (Research) said, “I2R has always been pitching our own capabilities in technology against other industry players through participation in global challenges. It is through this that we can learn more and improve ourselves, eventually winning international acclaim.” The I2R team is led by Dr Haizhou Li, Department Head of Human Language Technology, with members, Bin Ma, Hanwu Sun, Donglai Zhu, Kong-Aik Lee, Khe Chai Sim, Changhuai You, Rong Tong, Ismo Kärkkäinen, Vladimir Pervouchine, Yijie Li and Susanto Rahardja. - END - About Institute for Infocomm Research: About Fusionopolis Fusionopolis is Singapore’s science and technology hub that brings together scientists, research engineers and technology experts from a variety of science and engineering disciplines, to find innovative solutions for technological and lifestyle problems facing society and jumpstart future industries. Fusionopolis will have more than 1500 researchers from the public labs under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), with a broad spectrum of capabilities ranging from high performance computing to infocomm research, data storage, materials research and engineering, microelectronics, and manufacturing technology. The public labs work alongside corporate labs like those of Vestas, Thales Technology and Seiko Instruments to accelerate the development of technologies and new products, and bring them to market. Fusionopolis is located in close proximity to A*STAR’s biomedical sciences research institutes at Biopolis, which will open up opportunities for the fusion of capabilities across diverse scientific domains, thus paving the way for multi-disciplinary research. A whole-of-Singapore approach has been taken at Fusionopolis to enable it to jumpstart future industries. Fusionopolis will also be home to Singapore’s various industry-development public agencies such as the Media Development Authority, the Economic Development Board and SPRING Singapore. For more information on Fusionopolis, please visit http://www.fusionopolis.a-star.edu.sg About Institute for Infocomm Research The Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R - pronounced as i-squared-r) is a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) family. Established in 2002, our mission is to be the globally preferred source of innovations in `Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere’ through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore’s economic success. I²R performs R&D in information, communications and media (ICM) technologies to develop holistic solutions across the ICM value chain. Our research capabilities are in information technology and science, wireless and optical communications, and interactive digital media. We seek to be the infocomm and media value creator that keeps Singapore ahead. Website: http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg About NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology develops technologies, measurement methods and standards that help U.S. companies compete in the global marketplace. Congress created NIST in 1901 at the start of the industrial revolution to provide the measurement and standards needed to resolve and prevent disputes over trade and to encourage standardization. For more information, please visit http://www.nist.gov Media Contacts: Mr Andrew Yap Acting Manager, Corporate Communications Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) DID: (65) 6419 1143 Fax: (65) 6466 7716 Email: Submitted by AY, Institute for Infocomm Research on Friday, 15 August 2008 at 11:26 AM Category: Science & Research |
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