Kishore S. Prahallad (kishore.prahallad)

Kishore S. Prahallad

Senior Research Scientist International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500032. Office: A3-120 (Vindhya Block). Tel: +91-40-66531177 Email: kishore AT iiit.ac.in, URL: http://sites.google.com/site/kishoreprahallad/
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Kishore S. Prahallad is a senior research scientist at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad. He is associated with IIIT Hyderabad since March 2001, and started a speech-lab as a part of Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC). He is also supervising Language Technologies specialization stream at MSIT division, IIIT-Hyderabad and served as coordinator of MSIT division, IIIT Hyderabad from 2004 to 2009.

He did BE from Deccan College of Eng. & Tech., Osmania University in 1998, and MS (by Research) in 2000 from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He is pursuing his PhD in language technologies from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, as a visiting scholar since 2004.

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.