Research program 04

Language and Human Interfaces

Speech and language systems that support natural interaction with scientific and physical-intelligence systems, beginning with Twi, Ghanaian English and real-world code-switching.

Research programInternal

Research objective

Develop interfaces that can clarify uncertainty, recover from misunderstanding and preserve human expertise in field workflows.

01 / Core scientific questions

Questions under investigation.

  1. How should field systems handle tonal language and code-switching?
  2. How can a system detect misunderstanding before it affects a physical task?
  3. Which interaction patterns work when screens, literacy or connectivity are constrained?

02 / Current projects

Research topics.

  • Low-resource speech recognition
  • Natural text-to-speech
  • Tonal-language modeling
  • Code-switching
  • Voice-directed field systems
  • Clarification and misunderstanding detection

03 / Methods

Intended methods.

  • Consent-based speech collection
  • Pronunciation and lexicon development
  • Human-in-the-loop transcription
  • Task-oriented interface evaluation

04 / Evaluation

How the program will be evaluated.

  • Recognition across speakers and environments
  • Clarification behavior
  • Task completion
  • Human correction burden

Evaluation protocols and results will be published only after review. No performance result is claimed on this page.

05 / Research infrastructure

Systems and related models.

06 / Verification pending

Researchers and related publications.

Researchers involved

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Related publications

No public publication is currently associated with this program.