Research and development projects in speech technologies, which carried out 
since 1986 at the NAS Institute of Cybernetics (IC) and then 
from 1997 continued at IRTC, are analysed. It is considered the efforts coordinated 
and/or promoted with UNESCO, ELSNET and INTAS. 
Then INTAS project titled “Language Independent Model for ASR Advanced Research” 
is declared. Examples of created portable devices for IST are given.