Overview

For nearly four decades, Raytheon BBN Technologies has been a leader in speech and language technologies. Since the early 1970s, Raytheon BBN Technologies has been performing pioneering research in automatic speech recognition.
Over the years, Raytheon BBN Technologies has had many firsts, including the first demonstration, in the early 1990s, of real-time, large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition on commercial, off-the-shelf hardware.
Raytheon BBN's Byblos, our primary speech recognition system, is an automatically trainable system that utilizes probabilistic hidden Markov models, and it continues to represent the state of the art in large-vocabulary, speaker-independent speech recognition.
The Byblos engine forms the core of our application suite that includes Audio Indexer and Audio Monitoring System. It has also been used for automated directory assistance. Current research programs continue to advance the state of our speech recognition technology and deliver significant improvements in recognition accuracy for speech in different environments, including telephony and broadcast news, and in multiple languages, including English, Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Our natural language processing technologies can locate, identify, and organize information from a variety of sources and in multiple languages.
Current Projects
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Publications
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BBN IdentiFinder Text Suite™
Transform data into usable information. -
BBN TransTalk™
BBN TransTalk™ is a portable, two-way translation device that is helping to eliminate language barriers. -
BBN Web Monitoring System™
Distributed scaleable monitoring of international Web sites -
Cross Lingual Information Retrieval
English queries retrieve information from other languages -
Global Autonomous Language Exploitation
Develop and apply computer software technologies to absorb, analyze, and interpret huge volumes of speech and text -
Human-Machine Dialogs
Interactive human-machine systems -
Information Extraction from Speech
Automatic database population -
Information Extraction from Text
Automatic database population -
Machine Translation
Automated, multi-language translation -
Metaphor
Raytheon BBN Technologies is launching a project to collect metaphors from around the world as part of groundbreaking new research into languages.
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Multimedia Monitoring System
Delivering Insights from Foreign Media -
Multimedia Triage
Rapid identification of relevant audio and image documents -
Noise Robust Vocoders
Low data rate and intelligible voice communication in harsh acoustic environments -
Open Domain Question Answering
Queries answered by assembling information from multiple sources -
Optical Character Recognition
Convert paper documents to electronic data -
Speech to Speech Translation
Eliminates language barriers -
Speaker Recognition
Combining identification and verification -
Summarization / Headline Generation
Automatic identification of the main idea in text -
Technology Transition Services
Services to deploy speech & language technologies -
Topic Classification
Identification of text and document topics