SLFI group

Spoken Language Forensics & Informatics (SLFI) group

Speech Lab, LTRC, IIIT-Hyderabad








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Informatics for language learning
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Informatics for pronunciation tutoring
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Informatics for pronunciation tutoring
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We learn representations for informatics and their applicatioins
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Our work is beyond voice assistants
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We use knowledge from Speech analysis, NLP and Educational practice
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Our work targets to reach the society
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via cloud computation
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Illustrative screenshots from our developed interface - voisTUTOR



Our group updates..

  • Jan 2023: Jhansi, Nayan, Meenakshi, Manoj and Arshini presented in R&D Showcase at IIIT Hyderabad.

  • Jan 2023: Lokesh joined our group for a research internship.

  • Jan 2023: Jhansi got selected for Research Week with Google 2023 Workshop.

  • Jan 2023: Zishan joined our group for MS (Dual).

  • Dec 2022: Pragya joined our group for MS (Dual).

  • Aug 2022: Yugesh joined our group for a research internship.

  • Aug 2022: As part of College Research Affiliate Program, Nayan, Jhansi & Meenakshi presented research works to the students of Narayanamma College-Hyderabad.

  • Jul 2022: Meenakshi joined our group for PhD.

  • Jul 2022: Manoj joined our group for MS (Dual).

  • Jul 2022: Jhansi and Snehal guided few group projects in IASNLP 2022.

  • Jul 2022: Chiranjeevi gave talks in IASNLP 2022.

  • Jun 2022: Shubhakankar gave talk "Introduction to linguistics" in IASNLP 2022.

  • Jun 2022: Arshini, Ayyapppa and Karthikeya joined our group for Btech honors project.

  • May 2022: One paper accepted in MICCAI 2022.

  • May 2022: Subhankar joined our group for MS (Dual).

  • Apr 2022: Aaryan represnted college cricket team in intercollege cricket tournament.

  • Apr 2022: Aaryan received man of the tournament in interhouse cricket competition at IIIT Hyderabad.

  • Mar 2022: Meenakshi joined our group for a research internship.

  • Mar 2022: Jhansi, Nayan and Prashanth presented in R & D Showcase at IIIT Hyderabad.

  • Feb 2022: Chiranjeevi gave an invited talk "Hey, how I was spoken?: Leveraging ASR for spoken language forensics" in the workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition conducted by NIT, Arunachal Pradesh.

  • Feb 2022: One paper accepted in Elsevier Speech Communication Journal.

  • Dec 2021: Satvik joined our group for a research internship.

  • Nov 2021: One paper accepted in ICON 2021.

  • Oct 2021: Chiranjeevi has been awarded with "Prof D J Badkas Medal" for the best performance in PhD from IISc Bangalore.

  • Sep 2021: One paper accepted in Oriental COCOSDA 2021.

  • Aug 2021: Nayan has received IHub-Data Master's Fellowship 2021 for his master's studies.

  • Aug 2021: Jhansi has received prestigious "Kohli Research Fellowship" for her doctoral research.

  • Aug 2021: Jhansi and Nayan joined in our group for PhD and MS respectively.

  • May 2021: Chiranjeevi gave the talk on "Challenge paper details" at MUCS 2021.

  • Jul 2021: Naman joined in our group for a research interhship.

  • Jun 2021: Chiranjeevi gave invited talk on “Emerging Trends on Machine Learning & Signal Processing” at School of Electronics Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar.

  • Jun 2021: Divyansh joined in our group for a research intership.

  • Jun 2021: Two papers have accepted in Interspeech 2021.

  • May 2021: Prakul joined in our group for a research internship.

  • May 2021: One paper has accepted in Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP) journal.

  • May 2021: One paper has accepted in NCC 2021.

  • May 2021: Prasanth and Sai joined in our group for BTech honours project.

  • May 2021: Aaryan and Snehal joined in our group for MS(dual).

  • May 2021: Jasmine and Ratnesh joined in our group for a research internship.

  • Jan 2021: Chiranjeevi joined shared task committee of "MUCS 2021: MUltilingual and Code-Switching ASR Challenges for Low Resource Indian Languages".

  • Dec 2020: Chiranjeevi joined IIIT-H.

Our group @ IIITH

Research
Spoken language forensics (SLF) and their use in spoken language informatics (SLI)
Chiranjeevi
Asst Professor
Research
SLF - Prosody analysis under non-native context
Jhansi
PhD, ECE
Research
Working on Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis
Meenakshi
PhD, ECE
Research
SLI - Automatic data validation methods for ASR in non-native context
Nayan
MS, CSE
Research
SLI - Non-native pattern inspired representation learning for lexicon building
Aaryan
MS, CLD
Research
SLI - Adversarial attacks and defenses in spoken dialogue systems in non-native context
Snehal
MS, CSD
Research
Working on speech embeddings
Shubhankar
MS, CLD


Research
SLF - Learning representations for unsupervised stress detection in non-native context
Prasanth
UG, CSE
Research
SLI - Spoken dialogue systems for EdTech under non-native context
Sai
UG, CSE
Research
Working on the Unit Discovery Problem
Siddik
UG, CSE
Research
Working on Speech Intelligibility
Arshini
UG, ECE
Research
Working on emotion detection
Karthikeya
UG, CSE
Research
Predicting prosodic features from speech using transcripts
Manoj Sirvi
MS, CSD
Research
Extracting prosodic features from speech
Zishan Kazi
MS, CSD


@Research Interns

Research
SLF - Accented Speech Recognition .
Ankit
UG (CSE),
Manipal University
Research
SLF - Automatic mispronounced word detection & their exaggeration in teacher's speech.
Jasmine
UG (ECE), IIITG
Research
SLF - Exploring duration and pitch modeling for expressive speech synthesis
Ratnesh
UG (ECE), IIITBh
Research
SLI - Automatic intelligible text generation under non-native context
Prakul
UG (CSE), IITD
Research
SLI - Lexicon adaptation for accented speech recognition
Divyansh
UG (CSE), IITGoa
Research
SLI - Lexicon adaptation for accented speech recognition
Naman
UG (CSE), MMMUT
Research
SLF - Synthesizing the physiological process of speech production .
Ankush
UG (CSE),
IISER Tirupati
Research
SLF - Automatic mispronounced word detection & their exaggeration in teacher's speech.
Manoj
UG (CSE), IIITDM Kancheepuram
Research
SLF - Mispronunciation evaluation
Mitisha
UG (CSE)
Research
SLI - Phoneme-level audio exaggeration
Shambhabi
UG (CSE)
Research
Improving the goodness of pronunciation metric
Rishi
UG (CSE), BITS Pilani
Research
Working on automatic pronunciation assessment
Saksham
UG (CSE),
Bits Pilani Goa
Research
Spoken Language Analysis
Satvik Bhatnagar
UG (MnC), IITGoa
Research
Improving the prosodic embedding produced by TTS systems
SriYugesh
UG (CSE), Mahindra University, Hyderabad
Research
Emphasis of words in spoken language
Lokesh
UG (CSE), IIITDM Jabalpur

Last updated: 15-02-2023