Recent Selected Publications:

Journal Publications: 

• Sandeep Kumar Pandey, Hanumant Singh Shekhawat and S.R.M. Prasanna, "Multi-cultural speech emotion recognition using language and speaker cues", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, (2023). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2023.104679).

• Moakala Tzudir,  Shikha Baghel, Priyankoo Sarmah and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, "Under-Resourced Dialect Identification in Ao using Source Information," Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 2022. (https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014176)

• Sandeep K. Pandey, H. S. Shekhawat, S. R. M. Prasanna, Shalender Bhasin and Ravi Jasuja, "A deep tensor-based approach for automatic depression recognition from speech utterances", PLOS ONE, Aug. 2022 (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272659)

• Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee, S.R.M. Prasanna, and Prithwijit Guha, " Speech/music classification using phase based and magnitude based features” Speech Communication, June 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2022.06.005)

• Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee, S.R.M. Prasanna, and Prithwijit Guha, "Clean vs. Overlapped Speech-Music Detection using Harmonic-Percussive Features and Multi-Task Learning", IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech Language Processing, Apr. 2022.  (10.1109/TASLP.2022.3164199)

• Sandeep K. Pandey, H. S. Shekhawat and S. R. M. Prasanna “Attention gated tensor neural network architectures for speech emotion recognition”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 71, Part A, Doi:   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.103173, Jan, 2022.

• Hareesh M., Aravinda R., Raghavendra R., K. S. Rao, Pabitra M., and S. R. M. Prasanna, Christoph Busch “Multilingual Audio-Visual Smartphone Dataset and Evaluation”, accepted for IEEE Access, 2021. 

• Shikha Baghel, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, and Prithwijit Guha, “Overlapped speech detection using phase features”, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, vol. 150, Doi:  https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006614, Oct. 2021.

• Protima Nomo Sudro and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, “Modification of misarticulated fricative /s/ in cleft lip and palate speech”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 67, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102088, May, 2021.

• Moakala Tzudir,  Priyankoo Sarmah and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, "Analysis and Modeling of Dialect Information in Ao, a Low Resource Language" Journal of Acoustical Society of America, vol. 149(5), Doi: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004822, May 2021.

• Hareesh M., Aravinda R., Raghavendra R., K. S. Rao, Pabitra M., and S. R. M. Prasanna, Christoph Busch “Audio-Visual Biometric Recognition and Presentation Attack: A Comprehensive Survey”, IEEE Access, Doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063031, Mar. 2021. 

• Sudro, P.N., Vikram, C.M. & Prasanna, S.R.M. Event-Based Transformation of Misarticulated Stops in Cleft Lip and Palate Speech. Circuits Syst Signal Process 40, 4064–4088 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-021-01663-3, 2021.

Conference Publications: 

• Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, “Prosodic Information in Dialect Identification of a Tonal Language: The case of Ao”, Interspeech 2022.

• Jagabandhu Mishra, Joshitha Gandra, Vaishnavi Patil and Mahadeva Prasanna, “Issues on Sub-Utterance Level Language Identification in a Code Switched Bilingual Scenario”, SPCOM 2022

• Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna and Prithwijit Guha, “Foreground-Background Audio Separation using Spectral Peaks based Time-Frequency Masks”, SPCOM 2022

• Ayush Agarwal, Amitabh Swain and Mahadeva Prasanna, “Speaker Anonymization for Machines using Sinusoidal Model”, SPCOM 2022

• Ayush Agarwal, Jagabandhu Mishra and Mahadeva Prasanna, “Significance of excitation source sequence information for Speaker Verification”, SPCOM 2022

• Ayush Agarwal, Amitabh Swain, Jagbandhu Mishra and S R M Prasanna, “Significance of Prosody Modification in PrivacyPreservation on Speaker Verification”, accepted for NCC 2022.

• Moakala Tzudir, Mrinmoy B., Priyankoo S. and S. R. M. Prasanna, “Low-Resource Dialect Identification in Ao Using Noise Robust Mean Hilbert Envelope Coefficients” accepted for NCC 2022

• Moakala Tzudir, Shikha B., Priyankoo S., and S. R. M. Prasanna,  “Analyzing RMFCC Feature for Dialect Identification in Ao, an Under-Resourced Language”, accepted for NCC 2022.

• Jagabandhu M., Sidhartha Soma, and S. R. M. Prasanna, “Importance of Excitation Source and Sequence Learning Towards Spoken Language Identification Task”, accepted for NCC 2022.

Sponsored Projects:

• Development of Scalable Speaker Recognition Technology under NLTM, MeitY, 2022-25

• Educational content translation to tribal language, TIH-IIT Bombay, 2022-25

• Speech to Speech Translation for Tribal Languages using Deep Learning Framework, MeitY, 2021-2024

• ARTICULATE+: A System for Automated Assessment and Rehabilitation of Persons with Articulation Disorders, IMPRINT, 2017 - 2020.

• Nasospeech: Development of Diagnostic System for Severity Assessment of the Disordered Speech, DBT, 2017-2020.

• Development of Text to Speech System in Assamese and Manipuri Languages, MEiTy, 2012 - 2017. 

• Speech based Multi-level Authentication System, MEiTy, 2012 - 2016.

• Prosodically Guided Phonetic Engine in Assamese, MEiTy, 2011 - 2016.

• Development of Online Handwriting Recognition System in Assamese, MEiTy, 2011 - 2016.

• Agricultural Commodities Recognition System in Assamese, MEiTy, 2010 - 2012.

• Person Authentication based on Speaker Verification, MEiTy, 2009 - 2012. 

• Study of Source Features for Speech Synthesis and Speaker Recognition, UKIERI, 2007 - 2011.

Conferences Organized:

• TPC Chair, SPECOM 2022, Gurugram, India, 2022

• TPC Chair, NCC 2022, IIT Bombay, India, 2022

• General Co-Chair, Interspeech 2018, HICC, Hyderabad, 2018 

• Chair, Signal Processing Track, NCC 2016, IIT Guwahati, 2016. 

Workshops Organized:

• Workshop on “Linguistic Issues in Speech Processing for Under Resourced Languages”, 2-3, Mar. 2022, IIT Dharwad

• DIT Workshop "Speaker Verification: Development and Application", 13-17,  Feb. 2012, IIT Guwahati.

• Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing, 2011 (WiSSAP 2011), 08-11, Jan., 2011, IIT Guwahati.

• Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP), 28-29,  Dec., 2007, IIT Guwahati.

Courses Organized:

• GIAN course “Cognitive Speech Processing”, 21st – 25th Feb 2022, IIT Dharwad

• GIAN course “Brain computer interfaces for speech communication: theory and applications”, 26th Feb – 2nd Mar. 2018, IIT Guwahati.

• GIAN course “Speech enhancement for hearing aids”, 23-27, Jan. 2018, IIT Guwahati.

• GIAN Course “Empirical mode decomposition”, 23-27, Oct., 2017, IIT Guwahati. 

• GIAN Course “Advanced Sinusoidal Modelling and its Applications”, 26-30, Dec., 2016, IIT Guwahati.

• QIP Short-Term Course "Biomedical, Speech and Image Processing", 11-15, Dec., 2006, IIT Guwahati.

Visits Abroad:

• Graz, Austria,  Interspeech 2019, 15-19, Sept. 2019

• UNB, Fredericton, Canada, Academic Collaboration, 18-20, Oct., 2018.

• Stockholm, Sweden, Interspeech 2017, 20-24, Aug., 2017

• Singapore, TENCON 2016, 22-25, Nov., 2016 

• San Francisco, USA, Interspeech 2016, 2-6, Sept., 2016

• Dresden, Germany, Interspeech 2015, 6-10, Sept., 2015

• Singapore, Interspeech 2014, 14-18, Sept., 2014

• UNL, Sant Fe, Argentina, Academic Collaboration, Aug. 2014

• Lyon, France, Interspeech 2013, 25-29, Aug., 2013

• Portland, USA, Interspeech 2012, 9-13, Sept., 2012

• Shanghai, China, Speech Prosody 2012, 22-15, May, 2012

• Florence, Italy, Interspeech 2011, 28-31, Aug., 2011

• Makuhari, Japan, Interspeech 2010, 26-30, Sept., 2010

• Brighton, UK, Interspeech 2009, 6-10, Sept., 2009

• Antwerp, Belgium, Interspeech 2007, 27-31, Aug., 2007

• CSTR, Uty. of Edinburgh,  UK, Academic Collaboration, 2008, 2009, 2011

• IDIAP, Switzerland, Academic Collaboration, 2006, 2007, 2008 

• Orlando, FL and Boston, MS, USA, ICASSP 2012 and ICCNS, May 2002

Former PhD Research Scholars:

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