Pranaw Kumar

Introduction

Pranaw Kumar is currently working as a Scientist 'E' /Joint Director at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mumbai. He has been associated with CDAC Mumbai for the last 16 years. His research interests include language and speech technologies. He works for Text-to-Speech Synthesis System (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system for Indian Languages, and related applications. He has been involved in the development of Marathi, Odia, and Indian English TTS Systems, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, and English ASR Systems,  and various applications like TTS browser plugin, SMS Reader, TTS building Toolkit (TBT), Framework to integrate TTS system into websites, Speech Enabled IVRS System, Speech Enabled Multilingual chatbot, Speech Enabled Examination System for Visually Impaired Persons, etc. Currently he is Principal Investigator of a consortium based sub project  'Speech technologies in Indian languages' under the Project titled 'National Language Translation Mission (NLTM) : BHASHINI' for Mumbai centre. He was Principal Investigator of following two projects for Mumbai Centre:

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