RESEARCH INTEREST

Development methodology and authoring tools for Language and Speech Technologies (such as Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Dialog Systems). Currently, my research interest are primarily in Speech Processing. My Primary projects are Building Text to Speech, Automatic speech recognition systems for Indian Languages.

Working at Language Technologies Research Center (2 years+)
Graduate Research Assistant: November 2004 - Till date

Involved in research and development of the following systems

• Contributed in developing of natural sounding Text to Speech systems (TTS) for five Indian Languages
  • Tamil (Funded by Ministry of Social and Justice)
  • Telugu (Funded by Bhrigus Inc, India)
  • Hindi (Funded by NOKIA Research Center, China)
  • Bengali (for Research Purpose) and
  • Malayalam (for Course Project)
• Working on Language Issues related to Speech Systems.
  • Text Normalization
  • POS Tagger
  • Prosody Pause Prediction
  • Font Converters
  • Grapheme to Phoneme
  • Dialog Manager
  • Natural language generation
  • Exploiting syllabic structure for Text Processing
  • Optimal text selection
• Automatic Speech Recognition Systems for 3 Indian Languages (in collaboration with HP Labs, Bangalore, India).
• Reading Aid for Visually Impaired (RAVI)
  • Funded by Ministry of Social and Justice, Government of India.
• Spoken Dialog System for IIIT Extension Enquiry (In-house Project)