The contest "Native Speech 2014": at the start, attention, march!

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On January 15, the registration of the participants of the annual contest of developers - “Native Speech-2014” opened. The winner will receive 120,000 rubles, the silver winner - the iPhone 5, and the finalist who won the third place - the iPad 4.

You can fill out an application on your own or on behalf of a team on the Business Network Marketing to Innovation, Education, Science website that provides technical support to the competition.
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The registration procedure is described in detail in the instructions .



Participants will need to create a workable algorithm for converting the recognized sequence of phonemes into text that meets the norms of the Russian language. When creating the algorithm, it will be possible to use in-house developments and open software packages intended for research, such as: HTK, Kaldi, SRILM, mitLM, OpenFST. The use of commercial products and online services is not permitted.

Already on the MDG website, you can familiarize yourself with an example of tender data and ask questions to the organizers of the forum .

The opening of access to the current competitive database and, accordingly, the start of work of the teams is scheduled for February 15.
Read the conditions of participation and get all the necessary information on the contest page on the MDGs website .

A prerequisite for participation is to join our group VKontakte!

The organizer of Native Speech is the Center for Speech Technologies company, the absolute leader of the Russian and a significant player in the international market of speech technologies and multimodal biometrics, the leading developer of speech systems in Russia. All three winners of the competition will be invited to join the MDG team.