Area of Interest: Speech and Language Processing

Brief Bio:

Kishore S. Prahallad is an assistant professor at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad. He is associated with IIIT Hyderabad since March 2001, and started the speech activities in Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) at IIIT-H.  He served as a research scientist from 2001-2008, senior research scientist from 2008-2010, and as the coordinator of MSIT division from 2004-2009 at IIIT-H.

He did BE in computer science and engineering (CSE) from Deccan College of Eng. & Tech., Osmania University in 1998, MS (by Research) in 2001 from Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, and PhD in 2010 from Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.

His research interests are in speech and language processing, specifically in text-to-speech synthesis and  speech recognition. His current projects include building text-to-speech systems for Indian languages, collection of speech corpora in Indian languages, automatic annotation of speech data at phonetic and prosodic level, voice conversion, pronunciation modeling of non-native speech, spoken dialog systems, audio/music information retrieval and summarization, learning from examples and by doing.

1. Kishore S. Prahallad, Naresh Kumar Elluru, Venkatesh Keri and S. Rajendran, "IIIT-H Indic Speech Databases", in INTERSPEECH, Portland, USA, Sept 2012. [More] [Digital]
2. Ronanki Srikanth, Bajibabu Bollepalli and Kishore S. Prahallad, "Duration Modelling in Voice Conversion Using Artificial Neural Networks", in IWSSIP-2012, Vienna, Austria, 11-13, April 2012. [More]
3. Gautam Varma Mantena, S. Rajendran, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana and Kishore S. Prahallad, "Development of a Spoken Dialogue System for accessing Agricultural Information in Telugu", in International Conference on Natural Language Processing, December 2011. [More] [Digital]
4. Gautam Varma Mantena, S. Rajendran, B. Rambabu, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana and Kishore S. Prahallad, "A Speech-Based Conversation System for Accessing Agriculture Commodity Prices in Indian Languages", in Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Edinburgh UK, June 2011. [More] [Digital]
5. Gautam Varma Mantena, Bajibabu Bollepalli and Kishore S. Prahallad, "SWS task: Articulatory Phonetic Units and Sliding DTW", in MediaEval Workshop - 2011, Interspeech, Pisa, Italy, September 2011. [More] [Digital]