710556Large Scale Neural Network Acoustic Models (Cantab Research)ClosedGRD Proof of ConceptInnovate UKModelling of speech is becoming an increasingly lucrative area of business, especially in the areas of speech-to-text, speech indexing, speech verification, speaker identification and text-tospeech, all of which are becoming increasingly common and crucial components of modern technologies such as smart phones and tablets. Current performance is far from perfect, and this project will create new algorithms to improve performance of these technologies. The project will bring together: * recent advances in statistical modelling * the ease of building multi-teraflop scale computers with Graphics Processor Units * historical small scale use of machine learning in acoustic modelling * the proposer's 25 year experience in this area and * basic research developed by Cantab that has yet to be experimentally verified on a commercial scale The primary result for Cantab Research will be significantly better automatic speech recognition and licensing revenue for other domains.