Researches and develops measurement and evaluation methods to advance and promote the use of technologies that 1) provide more effective access to multimedia and multi-lingual information and 2) improve human-computer interface modalities; technologies include recognizing and/or transforming information in speech, text, video, and other modalities through speech recognition, speaker recognition, language recognition, machine translation, and visual recognition.

MBARK: to advance standards in biometric acquisition client technologies

MBGC: to focus R&D community on multiple biometric applications to advance innovation while NIST assesses performance of emerging technologies