Innovation INTAS Project
Innovation INTAS Project 05-1000007-426
Title of the Project: Introduction of the automatic Russian speech recognition system SIRIUS in telecommunication.
Duration: 2006-2008
Coordinator: Prof. Ruediger Hoffman, Dresden University of Technology
SPIIRAS Team Leader: Dr. Andrey Ronzhin
Summary:
The commercial software for Russian speech recognition for telephone applications will be developed. The main problem of development of such services
in Russia is connected with specifics of Russian language and, in particular, with difficult mechanism of word-formation. In contrast to English the Russian language
has much more variety on word-form level and so the size of recognized vocabulary sharply increases as well as quality and speed of the processing
decrease. The developed in Speech Informatics Group of SPIIRAS automatic speech recognition system SIRIUS allows to avoid these problems and provides
the speaker-independence and high accuracy of continuous speech recognition. The investment of the project is planned for the 3 years at that the sale of the
development software will be begun during third year. The application for the invention will be submitted to provide patent protection of the unique Russian
speech recognition technology used at creation of the product. Also the application for registration of the trade mark of the product SIRIUS will be submitted. For
reception of the patent and registration of the trade mark we shall involve the expert by patenting. The license for usage of software in one telephone channel
will be set as an object of sale. Taking into account the essential increase of target market it is possible to say that the forecast amounts of software sale will not make
worse the financial conditions of organization even at sharp decreasing the price of license. Company NewVoice invests the development and commercialization of
the product in Russian market. The profit of organization from the main activity will allow to cover the made investments already by forth year of software realization
and by the end of first year of entering the software into the market. In future the high portion in innovations in the price of the software will allow to carry out the
highly remunerative business.
