DARPA’s RATS program Recent documents from DARPA show that they are in the third phase of their already initiated Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program. Until recently, the accuracy of speech recognition and differentiating signal processing was in question and not effective enough for military applications. The RATS program with initial funding of $13 million and then an extra $2.4 million for Air Force deployment was designed and stipulated to produce algorithms that correct former development flaws by: Separating speech patterns to filter out music and background noise. Determine the language of the speech. Provide Identification for a single speaker or multiple speakers. Analyze and identify specific word patterns. The DARPA RATS program has included IBM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other universities like Carnegie Mellon, John Hopkins, the University of Baltimore, the University of Maryland, the University of Pittsburgh and universities located in Czech Republic, Spain, England and Denmark. It has included research from Raytheon along with research from Stanford Research Institute (SRI).To read this article in full, please click here Read More @CIO