DOD invests $48.4M in speech recognition</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="DOD invests $48.4M in speech recognition"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="DOD,invests,$48,4M,in,speech,recognition"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">27-06-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>DOD invests $48.4M in speech recognition</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Washington, USA (Techconfidential): The U.S. Department of Defense is making a substantial investment in speech recognition, which, like handwriting recognition, remains a huge technology challenge. The DOD is pumping $48.4 million into the Johns Hopkins University to establish and operate a Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, which will focus on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text and document image data in multiple languages. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://techconfidential.thedealblogs.com/2007/06/dod_invests_484m_in_speech_recognition.php " target="blank">techconfidential.thedealblogs.com/2007/06/dod_invests_484m_in_speech_recognition.php </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show