Evaluating Speech-to-Text Models for Mission Applications

NASA Ames Computer Science/Mathematics, 2023–24

Liaison(s): Jeremy Frank POM ’90, Lui Wang
Advisor(s): Xanda Schofield
Students(s): Sathvika Anand, Dylan Camacho, Joe Posthauer (TL-S), Manjari Senthilkumar, Olivia Yin (TL-F)

For NASA’s upcoming human spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars, effective communication during spaceflight will be more important than ever. NASA hopes to use high-powered speech-to-text models to streamline communication and support information lookup. However, most of these models are optimized for corporate use. How should NASA choose the right speech-to-text technology for their missions?
Our Clinic team has been developing a web application that automates the evaluation
and ranking of speech-to-text technologies for use in different NASA mission applications.