R01 / Flagship research program

Human-Centered Speech and Language Systems

Multilingual speech recognition, accessible interaction, low-resource languages, and privacy-preserving speech processing.

Program statusOpen research platform
Primary facilityHuman Language Systems Lab
Research fields

AI · LANGUAGE · ACCESS

Program mission

From consequential questions to verifiable outcomes

Make multilingual speech and language technology reliable in low-resource, accessible, and privacy-sensitive settings.
01

Core questions

  1. 01

    How can recognition remain robust for low-resource languages?

  2. 02

    How should assistive interaction adapt to different physical and cognitive needs?

  3. 03

    How can systems learn without centralizing raw speech?

02

Research methods

  1. 01

    Multilingual corpora and low-resource evaluation

  2. 02

    Participatory accessibility design

  3. 03

    Privacy-preserving learning

03

Program outcomes

  1. 01

    Open evaluation benchmarks

  2. 02

    Accessible interaction prototypes

  3. 03

    Language-data governance guidance

FACILITY / WARSAW

Human Language Systems Lab

Make multilingual speech and language technology reliable in low-resource, accessible, and privacy-sensitive settings.

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