LemonSpeech: Next Generation Speech Recognition and Speech Control for German

LemonSpeech is a project government-funded by the EXIST program of the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie. It is based on seven years of research on domain-dependent automatic speech recognition (ASR) performed by the Knowledge Technology group. It aims to transfer the research from English ASR to German ASR and evaluate the possibility for a market entry. Also, further research is performed to reach state-of-the-art performance in German ASR. The novel models aim to achieve equivalent performance as computationally intense Cloud-based ASR models, while being runnable on inexpensive local hardware. The models developed in the last years are evidently runnable on this hardware, future models will be adapted to it.

Duration: August 1st, 2021 - July 31th, 2022
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter
Associates: Dr. Johannes Twiefel, Matthias Möller, Felix Hattemer