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Honeywell RASP Can Make Radio Calls More Understandable
Research could help controllers understand non-English speaker dialogue
Honeywell Real-time Anonymization & Speech Protection
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The U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded a multi-million contract to Honeywell to lead the development of real-time speech anonymizing technology. Honeywell’s Real-time Anonymization & Speech Protection (RASP) technology can turn spoken words into anonymized speech to protect people from exploitation and help convert heavily accented dialogue into understandable words. This could allow an air traffic controller, for example, to understand radio transmissions from a non-native English speaker. 

Honeywell's RASP work is part of IARPA’s Anonymous Real-Time Speech (ARTS) program. The company's goal is to “safeguard users from unintended speech signals and support real-time communication in industries such as aviation.

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