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..

  • Oct 2024: Anindita performed at the Sangeetha Vibhavari event held at Shilparamam.

  • Oct 2024: Anindita attended O-COCOSDA 2024 virtually and presented her paper titled 'IIIT-Speech Twins 1.0: An English-Hindi Parallel Speech Corpora for Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation and Automatic Dubbing'.

  • Oct 2024: Anindita presented on Santali TTS in the 3rd Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024).

  • Sep 2024: One paper accepted in COCOSDA 2024.

  • Sep 2024: Bhaskar organized Felicity Buzz'24 in IIITH.

  • Sep 2024: Jhansi and Harshitha attended Interspeech 2024 and presented their papers titled 'Post-Net: A linguistically inspired sequence-dependent transformed neural architecture for automatic syllable stress detection' and 'A comparative analysis of sequential models that integrate syllable dependency for automatic syllable stress detection'. And also demonstrated a web-based tool 'IIITH Ucchar e-Sudharak: An automatic English pronunciation corrector for school-going children with a teacher in the loop'

  • July 2024: Chaithra joined our group for MS, CSE.

  • July 2024: Harshitha joined our group for MS, CSE.

  • July 2024: Jhansi completed her comprehensive viva.

  • July 2024: Jhansi's mentored project at IASNLP-24 received first prize for the project titled 'Layered Analysis of wav2vec Representations for Syllable Stress Detection'.

  • June 2024: Jhansi and Harshitha received ISCA travel grant to present their papers in Interspeech 2024.

  • June 2024: Snehal completed his MS defense.

  • June 2024: Nayan completed his MS defense.

  • June 2024: Three papers accepted in Interspeech 2024.

  • April 2024: Kumar has received IHub Anubhuti-IIITD Foundation CHANAKYA fellowship 2024 for his master's studies.

  • March 2024: Jhansi, Meenakshi, Nayan, Kumar, Anindita, Shubhankar, Harshitha and Ajay presented in R&D Showcase 24 at IIIT Hyderabad.

  • Feb 2024: Jhansi attended NCC 2024 and presented her paper titled 'Exploring the Use of Self-Supervised Representations for Automatic Syllable Stress Detection'.

  • Jan 2024: Jhansi and Kumar attended Research Week with Google 2024 Workshop.

  • Jan 2024: As part of the College Research affiliate Program, Meenakshi and Kumar served as teaching assistants for Speech Analytics, assisting students from KIET (Kakinada), HITAM, Vasavi, BVRIT for Women (Hyderabad), and Saintgits (Kerala).

  • Dec 2023: Nayan and Meenakshi received the Best Paper Award at O-COCOSDA 2023 for presenting the paper titled 'IIITH MM2 Speech-Text: A preliminary dataset for automatic spoken data validation with matched and mismatched speech-text'.

  • Dec 2023: One paper accepted in NCC 2024.

  • Dec 2023: Nayan attended INDICON 2023 and presented his paper titled 'Unsupervised pronunciation assessment analysis using utterance level alignment distance with self-supervised representations'.

  • Dec 2023: Nayan attended O-COCOSDA 2023 virtually and presented his paper titled 'IIITH MM2 Speech-Text: A preliminary data for automatic spoken data validation with matched and mismatched speech-text'.

  • Nov 2023: Snehal attended SPECOM 2023 and presented his paper titled 'Analysis of Natural Language Understanding Systems with L2 learner specific synthetic grammatical errors based on Parts-of-Speech'.

  • Nov 2023: Jhansi attended SPECOM 2023 and presented her paper titled 'A Comparison of Learned Representations with Jointly Optimized VAE and DNN for Syllable Stress Detection'.

  • Oct 2023: One paper accepted in COCOSDA 2023.

  • Oct 2023: One paper accepted in INDICON 2023.

  • Sep 2023: Three papers accepted in SPECOM 2023.

  • Aug 2023: Meenakshi has received IHub-Data PhD fellowship 2023 for her doctoral research.

  • July 2023: Kumar joined our group for MS.

  • July 2023: Ajay joined our group for BTech honours project.

  • July 2023: Jhansi selected for an internship at Samsung RnD, Bangalore.

  • June 2023: One paper accepted in SLATE 2023.

  • June 2023: Manognya joined our group for BTech honours project.

  • May 2023: One paper accepted in Interspeech 2023.

  • Mar 2023: As part of college research affiliate Program, Jhansi presented research works to the students of KIET College-Kakinada.

  • Jan 2023: Jhansi, Nayan, Meenakshi, Manoj and Arshini presented in RnD 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).

  • 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 our group for PhD and MS respectively.

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

  • Jul 2021: Naman joined 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 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 our group for BTech honours project.

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

  • May 2021: Jasmine and Ratnesh joined 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.


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Last updated: 21-10-2024