Ongoing Sponsored Projects
1. [2011-2013] - MCIT project on "Development of Prosodically Guided Phonetic Engine for Searching Speech database in Indian Languages" with 10 Consortium Institutions.
2. [2011-2015] - "Development of acoustic cues based emotion event detection algorithms" Sponsored by Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India.
3. [2012-2015] - MCIT project on ”Development of text-to-speech system in Telugu language on mobile platforms – as a part of TTS consortium - Phase-II”, Gov. of India.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
- [2010-2012] - MCIT project on "Speech-based Access for Agricultural Commodity Prices in Six Languages".
- [2010-2011] - MHRD Project on "Virtual Lab for Speech Signal Processing".
- [2010-2011] - MHRD Project on "Virtual Lab for Artificial Neural Networks".
- [2009-2012] - Indo-Swiss Project on "Cross-cultural personality perception" in collaboration with IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland.
- [2009-2011] - MCIT project on "”Development of text-to-speech system in Telugu language – as a part of TTS consortium - Phase-I”.
- [2009-2011] - DRDO project on "Secure access to launch computer using multimodal biometrics" with RCI, Hyderabad.
- [2009-2011] - MCIT project on "Development of text-to-speech system in Telugu language".
- [2009-2011] - LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore project on "Collection of 1500 hours of speech data in 3 Indian languages".
- [2007-2011] - UKIERI Standard awards (Indo-UK project) on "Study of source features for speech synthesis and speaker recognition" jointly with IIT Guwahati and CSTR, Edinburgh.
- [2007-2010] - MCIT project on "Development of phonetic engine for Indian languages".
- [2007-2010] - DRDO project on "Feasibility of ultra low-bit rate coding for transmission and storage of speech" with CAIR, DRDO, Bangalore.
- [2007-2010] - DRDO project on "Efficient representation of speech from throat microphone for transmission and storage of speech information" with CAIR, DRDO, Bangalore.
- [2005-2008] - Indo-Swiss project on "Keyword spotting in continuous speech" jointly with IIT Guwahati and IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland.
- [2005-2006] - Bhrigus Software (I) Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, "Development of high quality general purpose Telugu TTS".
- [2005-2006] - Nokia China, "Development of high quality Hindi TTS".
- [2004-2006] - Ministry of Social Justice, GoI, "Reading Aid for Visually Impaired (RAVI)".
- [2004] - HP Labs India, "Speech database collection and building large continuous speech recognizer in Indian languages".