Rohit Kumar's Projects

 
 

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  • Automatic Speech Recognition for Indian Languages ( started June 2004 )

    Currently the work going on is Data Collection and more so setting up the infrastructure and resources for data collection. My part in the team till now has been to make available HUGE Text Corpuses for the languages we are working with in suitable formats for OPTIMAL TEXT SELECTION.

    Further i have worked out an TELEPHONY (DIALOGIC) based IVR System for collecting Speech Data over Telephone lines.

Lot of projects on going besides the one mentioned below. Several along with IIIT students/summer interns.

Some under collaborations/partnerships of our research center with other organizations including PICOPETA, OutsideEcho.

Further modules for improving the Indian Languages for TTS and some redesigning is going on.

  • Machine Learning Approach to Schwa Deletion (summer 2004, with Kailash Toshniwala, NIT Warangal)
     

  • Khabrein: Online Hindi News Channel (crawls, unifies, classifies and presents with a web based spoken interface news from 5 Hindi news services. Search Engine coming up soon. Framework to support any number of new service and extending to new Indian Languages)
     

  • Prosody Manipulation using by Modifying LP Residual (with Sebsibe H/Mariam)
     

  • Limited Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems for Indian Languages (with Sebsibe H/Mariam)
     

  • Photorealistic Visual Speech Synthesis (presently working on it) (project suspended)
     

  • Text - to - Speech Systems for Indian Languages
     

  • Email Client for Hindi ( with Speech Support )
     

  • Non - Native Pronunciation Lexicon Building [See publications]
     

  • Samachaar Vaani: News Reader
     

  • Deepti: Hindi Speaking Chat Bot
     

  • Font / Notation Convertors for Hindi (Supports Unicode, UTF-8, ISCII, Amarujala, Bhaskar, Naidunia, Jagran, Yogesh, Shusha, Shashi, WX)
     

  • Other College Projects: STLViewer, DBHandler, Trans-Interpretor, 8085 Simulator, etc. Lots of code cooked up over years is available here.

Presently I am also being co - guide to one of the final year student projects "Talking Agent". Some of my notes on this project can be found [ 1 ] [ 2 ] here.

Also See: Crazy Ideas:  Things i / we want to work on in near future and other crazy ideas

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