M.Tech scholar Mr. Rajul Acharya, and B.Tech scholar Mr. Maitreya Patel are awarded The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research & Innovation for the academic year 2019-20.
Doctoral student Madhu Kamble got 1000 USD IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) of Gujarat Chapter grant to present her paper in the 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, held at Brighton, United Kingdom between May 12 and May 17, 2019.
Ms. Madhu Kamble received the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Grant Award of 650 Euros to present a research paper at INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
Appointed as PRSG member for three of MeitY's consortia projects.
Master student Hemlata Tak got 800 Euros to grant for the Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology 2018, Hyderabad, India.
Doctoral student Ankur Patil got a 150 GBP ISCA grant to present his paper in The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Microsoft Hyderabad campus, September 07, 2018.
Doctoral student Mr. Hardik B. Sailor has been awarded a grant of 650 Euros from International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) to present our joint research papers during INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, September 02-06, 2018.
Doctoral student, Mr. Nirmesh J. Shah has been awarded a grant of 400 Euros from International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) to present our joint research paper during MLSLP 2018, Google, Hyderabad, Sept. 07, 2018.
B.Tech student of Speech Research Lab from IIIT, Vadodara, Mahek Piplani got 800 Euros to grant for the Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology 2018, Hyderabad, India.
APSIPA Distinguished Lecturers for 2018-2019: Hemant A Patil, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India. [Link]
DA-IICT Team (Prof. Hemant A. Patil, UGC scholar Ms. Madhu R. Kamble, DeitY ASR Phase-II project staffs, Ms. Tanvina B. Patel and Mr. Meet Soni) as participants has bagged the eighth rank in a worldwide competition, "ASV Spoof Challenge 2017" during INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 20-24, 2017.
Prof. (Dr.) Hemant A. Patil received NVIDIA Hardware Grant Titan X GPU for Speech Research (March 08, 2016).
Doctoral student and DeitY TTS sponsored project staff member, Ms. Tanvina B. Patel received a travel Grant of 1000 USD from IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), USA to attend the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Shanghai, China, during 20-25 March 2016.
DeitY TTS Phase-II Team (Ms. Tanvina B. Patel and Dr. Hemant A. Patil) at DA-IICT as the participant has topped in a worldwide competition, "ASV Spoof Challenge 2015 during INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany".
Doctoral student Ms. Anshu Chittora received the best paper award for the paper "Analysis of normal and pathological infant cries using bispectrum features derived using HOSVD," in the International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and System, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 26-28 May, 2015.
M. Tech student and DeitY ASR sponsored project staff member, Mr. Pramod Bachhav received a travel Grant of 1300 USD from IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), USA to attend the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Brisbane, Australia, during 19th – 24th April 2015.
Doctoral student and DeitY TTS sponsored project staff member, Ms. Tanvina B. Patel received a travel grant of Rs. 42,000/- from Microsoft Research, India to present research papers in ISCSLP'14 and INTERSPEECH'14, both co-located in Singapore.
Doctoral student and DeitY TTS sponsored project staff member, Mr. Nirmesh J. Shah has been awarded a travel grant of 800 USD from IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), USA to attend the 39th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Florence, Italy during May 4 - May 9, 2014 to present his co-authored paper on, "Effectiveness of PLP-based phonetic segmentation for Speech Synthesis" with Mr. Bhavik B. Vachhani, Mr. Hardik B. Sailor and Dr. Hemant A. Patil.
Doctoral student and DeitY TTS sponsored project staff member, Ms. Tanvina B. Patel received an ISCA student grant worth 650 Euros from the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) for presenting her research work "Nonlinear prediction of speech using Volterra-Wiener Series," at INTERSPEECH 2013, Lyon, France. This grant has been approved by Prof. Alan W. Black of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA.
Doctoral student, Mr. Maulik C. Madhavi, received LDC Data Scholarships (Spring 2013 program). The scholarship involves free licensed use of Switchboard Cellular Part 1 Transcribed Audio (LDC2001S15) and 1997 HUB4 English Evaluation Speech and Transcripts (9LDC2002S11).
Doctoral student, Mr. Maulik C. Madhavi, student coauthor received IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Travel Scholarship for presenting our joint paper, viz., Significance of Magnitude and Phase Information via VTEO for Humming-based Biometrics,” in International Conference on Biometrics, ICB’12, Delhi, India. The grant has been approved by Dr. Salil Prabhakar (IEEE Fellow).
Our past B.Tech. student, Mr. Vikrant Tomar received a student grant from the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) for presenting research paper "On the development of properties for variable-length Teager energy operator" at INTERSPEECH 2008, Brisbane, Australia. The grant has been approved by Prof. Alan W. Black of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Awarded a grant of 6000 USD to visit Prof. Keshab K. Parhi’s research group at Department of ECE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, the USA during May-July 2009.