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AI4TRUST-RO

AI-based technologies for trustworthy solutions against disinformation

General Information

AI4TRUST-RO project was funded by the Romanian Government through the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), programme “Horizon Europe - Institutional Awards”, project ID: PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0078, contract number 27PHE/ 2023.

The implementation team comprised some of the Speech and Dialogue research laboratory members in POLITEHNICA Bucharest: Horia Cucu (project director), Dan Oneață, Alexandru Caranica, Lucian Georgescu, Gabriel Pîrlogeanu, Octavian Pascu.

The project started in January 2024 and was finalized in December 2025.

Activities

The activities performed in the project were the following:

The activities were 100% completed and all institutional research and development objectives were achieved.

Deliverbales

The deliverables created within the project were the following:

Results

The project results are primarily represented by the deliverables mentioned in the previous section and the scientific publications produced by the project team.

The working visits and experience exchanges of the POLITEHNICA Bucharest team were carried out in Thessaloniki (Greece), Copenhagen (Denmark), Geneva (Switzerland), Lisbon (Portugal) and Rotterdam (Netherlands). As a result of these visits and experience exchanges, research topics of common interest were identified and connections were made that are being exploited in order to propose research projects in international consortia. For example, during this period we are working, together with the partners in Thessaloniki, on a project proposal for the UNITE - European Digital Health Valleys call.

One of the project activities involved the organization of a scientific conference. Thus, with the support of this project, in October 2025, the Speech and Dialogue Research Laboratory, from POLITEHNICA Bucharest, organized, in collaboration with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, the Institute of Informatics of the Romanian Academy and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, the international conference “Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue” (SpeD). The aim of the event was to bring together researchers, engineers, developers and industry professionals to exchange innovative ideas and deepen research in cutting-edge areas: automatic speech recognition, voice synthesis, speaker identification, emotion recognition in speech, but also aspects related to audio security (deepfakes) and human-machine dialogue.

The conference provided remarkable academic visibility to Romanian research laboratories in this field. By indexing the papers in IEEE Xplore and Web of Science, SpeD will generate scientific impact and potential for long-term collaboration with institutions and companies globally.

The research activity carried out within the project led to the design and implementation of a method for speech recognition and processing in adverse acoustic conditions, a method for detecting counterfeit audio materials, a multimodal method for identifying emotions in speech and a method for diarizing speech/

The dissemination of the project results was carried out through the project website and by publishing several scientific articles. In total, four scientific articles were published: two at the most important speech processing conference in the world, Interspeech 2024, a conference already indexed by IEEE and ISI Web of Science, and two others at IEEE conferences, Communications 2024 and SpeD 2025.

Publications