================================================================ 08/15/99 to 08/14/00: Our workshops are an excellent example of the outreach activities in this project. Most of the participants represent schools not prominent in the field of speech recognition. We have at least one underrepresented university participating in our May 2000 workshop. Demand for the workshop was so great that we increased the size from 8 participants (originally budgeted) to 25 participants in the first year of the summer workshop. We also significantly improved participation of undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in our research project in the second year of the program. ================================================================ 08/15/98 to 08/14/99: This grant has directly supported the equivalent of four full-time graduate students and several undergraduates. Undergraduate students have made major contributions in web site development, Java programming, and speech system tool development. We have also interacted with one high school student in this program. This student developed the first version of a Swing-based Java applet that is an enhancement of an existing applet. He graduated in Spring'99 and is pursuing a degree in computer science.