The Institute for Signal and Information Processing (ISIP) was created in 1994 with a simple vision to develop public domain speech recognition software. See mission for a detailed copy of our mission statement and licensing policy. In short:

• Public Domain: unrestricted software (including commercial use); no copyrights, licenses, or research-only restrictions.
  
  
• Increase Participation: competitive technology plus application-specific toolkits to reduce start-up costs.
  
  
• "GNU For DSP": what better model?
  
  
• Lasting Infrastructure: Support, training, education, dissemination of information are priorities.