Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy said: "I want an agency that makes sure no important thing remains undone because it doesn’t fit somebody's mission." And so IARPA was created. IARPA / DARPA was involved in creating Babel and Kaldi, among other things of course.
Now I'm learning Kaldi. (Just getting started). Curiousity about the following intoductory slide led me to make this post.
