RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – A South Dakota Mines professor has received a research award to help improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence tools that turn speech into text.
Nirmalya Thakur, an assistant professor in the university’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded 200,000 ACCESS Credits through a program funded by the National Science Foundation.
The award will give Thakur and his research team access to advanced computing resources to study how different computer systems affect the performance of automatic speech recognition technology…