Sicheres Sprachdialogsystem zur multimodalen Integration von Dienstleistungen (SIDIMO)

SIDIMO is an R&D cooperation project within the ZIM-network “DEMOBIS”. In collaboration with our project partner CIBEK, this project aims to develop a robust German speech recognition system for elderly people in a smart-home environment.

Systems that support elderly people in their home environments offer their target group an extension on an independent and self-determined way of living. However, existing speech recognition systems for home environments usually transfer recorded data to third-party servers, which raises a series of privacy issues. Additionally, while language as an intuitive means of communication can facilitate interactions of inexperienced users with assistance systems, ASR systems often struggle with elderly voices due to irregularities in speech patterns or indistinct pronunciations.

The goal of SIDIMO is to develop a speech recognition system, which 1) adjusts existing network architectures for German ASR to work locally, keeping private data in the possession of the user, and 2) can continually adapt to the changing speech of elderly users to increase speech recognition accuracy.

Duration: 01.10.2021 - 30.09.2023
PI: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter
Associate: Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Dr. Matthias Kerzel