About the Research Center

The Center for Language and Speech Technologies and Applications (TALP) is a specific interdepartmental research center at the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC).

The technological scope of the TALP Center is the automatic processing of both written and spoken natural language. Its aim is to help overcome language barriers to improve access to information systems.

It is comprised by two research groups:

The Speech Processing Group at the Signal Theory and Communication Department and the Natural Language Processing Group at the Software Department.

Both of them enjoy the status of a Consolidated Research Group, conferred by the Catalan Government.

As an R&D center, the TALP is actively involved in various basic and applied research project.