Talks and Visits

Tutorials

1. Extraction of Excitation Component Information from Speech and its Applications: A Review in INDICON 2021 conference at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (Virtual). (Along with B. Yegnanarayana and Paavo Alku)

Invited Talks

2. Voice Quality from Neck-Surface Accelerometer Signals, Speech and Singing and Application to Pathological Voices in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA in June 2022 (Physical).

3. Voice Qualities and Health Analytics in University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA in June 2022 (Physical).

4. Analysis and Detection of Heart Failure from Speech: Challenges and Opportunities in Faculty Development Program on Pathological Speech Signal Processing: Challenges, Opportunities and Future directions at GSSS Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Mysore, India in March 2022 (Virtual).

5. Recent Trends in Speech Processing and Deep Learning: Application to Para-linguistics and Pathological Voice in Faculty Development Programme on Advancements in Speech and Natural Language Processing organized at ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad, India in February 2022 (Virtual).

6. Basics of Speech Signal Processing and Extraction of Excitation Information of Speech in Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Automatic Speech Recognition and Speaker Verification at NIT Sikkim, India in September 2021 (Virtual).

7. Signal Processing for Extraction of Excitation Information of Speech and Applications: A Review in International seminar on Soft Computing and Signal Processing Applications at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jodhpur Institute of Engineering Technology, India in April 2021 (Virtual).

8. Extraction of Excitation Component Information from Speech and its Applications: A Review in Workshop on Machine Learning Speech Processing at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Sikkim, India in February 2021 (Virtual).

9. Python with NumPy, Pandas and Matplotlib in Professional Development Program, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad in November 2020 (Virtual).

10. Extraction of Excitation Source Information from Speech and its Applications for Expressive Speech Processing, at DAIICT (5 Minute Ph.D. Thesis), Gandhinagar, India, 2017. 

11. Extraction of Excitation Source Information from Speech and its Applications for Expressive Speech Processing, at Google Speech PhD Summit, London, 2016. 

12. Analysis of Emotional Speech - A Review, at University college, London (UCL), 2016. 

Conference and Lab Talks

1. Severity Classification of Parkinson’s Disease from Speech using Single Frequency Filtering-based Features at INTERSPEECH, Dublin, Ireland, 2023 (Physical).

2. Hierarchical Multi-Class Classification of Voice Disorders Using Self-Supervised Models and Glottal Features at ICASSP, Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023 (Physical).

3. “Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Voice Qualities from Speech and Neck Surface Accelerometer Signals'', at INTERSPEECH, Incheon, Korea, 2022 (Virtual)

4. “Effectiveness of Glottal Source Features in the Discrimination of Speech of Healthy Talkers from Speech of Parkinsonian Talkers With and Without Perceptual Dysarthia'', in 51st Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, USA, 2022 (Physical).

5. “Analysis and Detection of Pathological Voice using Glottal Source Features”, at ICASSP 2021, Toronto, Canada (Virtual).

6. “Systematic Analysis of Phonation Modes in Singing Voice using Glottal Source Features'', in 50th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, USA, 2021 (Virtual).

7. “Parkinson's Disease Detection from Speech using Single Frequency Filtering Cepstral Coefficients” at INTERSPEECH 2020, Shanghai, China (Virtual).

8. “Comparison of Glottal Closure Instant Detection Algorithms for Emotional Speech” at ICASSP 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual).

9. “Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients of Voice Source Waveforms for Classification of Phonation Types in Speech” at INTERSPEECH, Graz, Austria, 2019.

10. “A Quantitative Comparison of Epoch Extraction Algorithms for Telephone Speech” at ICASSP, Brighton, UK,  2019.

11. “Estimation of Fundamental Frequency From Singing Voice using Harmonics of Impulse-like Excitation Source ” at INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India.

12. “Breathy to Tense Voice Discrimination using Zero-Time Windowing Cepstral Coefficients” at INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India.

13. “Analysis and Detection of Phonation Mode in Singing Voice using Excitation Source Features and single frequency filtering cepstral coefficients (SFFCC) ” at INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India.

14. “Why can’t we perceive whisper speech from a distance compared to normal speech?”, at TRF-2017, Strausbourg, France. 

15. “Speech Polarity Detection using Strength of Impulse-like Excitation Extracted from Speech Epochs”, at ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, USA. 

16. “Extraction of Excitation Source Information from Speech and its Applications for Expressive Speech Processing”, at PhD Forum, ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, USA. 

17. “Robust Estimation of Fundamental Frequency using Single Frequency Filtering Approach”, at INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA. 

18. “Review of Speech Prosody Studies in Interspeech 2015”, at Speech & Vision Laboratory, LTRC, 2015, IIIT Hyderabad. 

19. “Analysis of Excitation Source Features of Speech for Emotion Recognition”, at INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany. 

20. “Analysis of singing voice for epoch extraction using zero frequency filtering method”, at ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia.

21. “Speech Signal Processing activities at Speech & Vision Laboratory, at R&D Showcase, 2015, IIIT Hyderabad.

22. “Discriminating Neutral and Emotional Speech using Neural Networks”, at ICON 2014, Goa, India. 

23. “Naturalistic Audio-Visual Emotion Database”, at ICON 2014, Goa, India. 

24. “Analysis of Cognitive Loaded Speech using Excitation Source Features ”, at ICON 2014, Goa, India. 

25. “Analysis of emotional speech at subsegmental level”, INTERSPEECH 2013, Lyon, France.

26. “Emotion Recognition System based on Excitation Source Features of Speech”, at Speech & Vision Laboratory, LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad (2013).

27. “Emotional Speech Analysis: Recognition and Synthesis”, at R&D (Research & Development) Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (2013).

28. “Recent Works on Emotional Speech Analysis”, at Speech & Vision Laboratory, LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad (2012).

Visits (conferences and workshops)

Conferences

1. EUSIPCO - 2023 (4-8 September) Helsinki, Finland (Physical)

2. INTERSPEECH - 2023 (20-24 August) Dublin, Ireland (Physical).

3. ICASSP - 2023 (4-10 June), at Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023 (Physical).

4. INTERSPEECH - 2022 (18-22 September), Incheon, Korea, 2022 (Virtual).

5. 51st Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice -2022,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Physical).

6. ICASSP - 2021, Toronto, Canada (Virtual).

7. 50th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice -2021,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Virtual).

8. INTERSPEECH - 2020, Shanghai, China (Virtual).

9. SPCOM-2020, Bangalore, India (Virtual).

10. ICASSP-2020, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual).

11. INTERSPEECH-2019, Graz, Austria.

12. ICASSP-2019, Brighton, UK.

13. INTERSPEECH-2018, Hyderabad, India.

14. TRF-2017 conference: Strausbourg, France.

15. INTERSPEECH-2017 conference: Stockholm, Sweden.

16. ICASSP-2017 conference: New Orleans, USA

17. INTERSPEECH-2016 conference: San Francisco, USA.

18.  Google Speech PhD Summit-2016: London, UK.

19. INTERSPEECH-2015 conference: Dresden, Germany.

20. ICASSP-2015 conference: Brisbane, Australia.

21.  INTERSPEECH-2013 conference: Lyon, France.

Workshops

1. AI Med West Symposium, at Los Angeles, California, USA on 01 February 2024 (Physical).

2. 3rd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, at Dublin, Ireland, 19 August 2023 (Physical).

3. Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond, at Rhodes Island, Greece, 10 June 2023 (Physical)

4. Speech for Social Good Workshop, 24-25 September, 2022 (Virtual).

5. The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC), Incheon, Korea, 22 September, 2022 (Virtual).

6. Short-term course on Speech and Auditory Processing by Humans and Machines, IIT Dharwad, July, 2022 (Virtual).

7. Winter School in Speech and Acoustic Processing (WISSAP) - Machine Listening: Making Sense of Sound, IIT Mandi, 8-10, January, 2020.

8. The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC), Graz, Austria, 14 September, 2019.

9. Investigating language with MEG at Aalto University, 19, August 2019.

10. Health & Behavior Data Symposium at Aalto University, 26, April 2019.

11. Music Cognition Symposium (Neural, Behavioural, Cultural, and Therapeutic Perspectives) at IIIT Hyderabad, 24-25, March, 2018.

12.  Winter School in Speech and Acoustic Processing (WISSAP) - ``Signal Processing for Speech and Hearing Disorders'' at IIT Guwahati, 19-22, January, 2018.

13. Workshop On Brain, Computation And Learning (BCL) at IISc Bangalore, 8-12, January, 2018.

14. Blizzard Challenge, August, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017.

15. Challenges in Hearing Assistive Technology (CHAT) in August, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017.

16. Summer School on Neuroimaging (SSNI) at IIIT Hyderabad, 16-20, July, 2017.

17. Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P) at DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India, 8-12, July, 2017.

18. Music and the Brain held at IIIT Hyderabad, March 17, 2017.

19. Winter School in Speech and Acoustic Processing (WISSAP) - ``Spatial Audio Processing" at IISc Bangalore, 26-29, January, 2017.

20. Brain, Computation and Learning Workshop (BCL) at IISc, Bangalore, 9 - 13 January, 2017.

21. Short term course on ``Advanced Sinusoidal Modeling of Speech and Applications"  by Prof. Yannis Stylianou (University of Crete) at IIT Guwahati, 26-30 December, 2016.

22. Blizzard Challenge, September, Cupertino, California, USA, 2016.

23. Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW9), September, Cupertino, California, USA, 2016.

24. Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P) at DA-IICT, 2016.

25. EEG Demonstration cum Workshop at IIIT Hyderabad, July, 2015.

26. Mathematics, Music and Nature  at C R Rao AIMSCS, University of Hyderabad, March 2015.

27. Applied Time Series Analysis by Prof T. Subba Rao (University of Manchester, U.K), 17 February to 25 March, 2014.

28. Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2014, IIIT, Hyderabad.

29. Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2013, IIT Madras.

30. Workshop in Image and Speech Processing (WISP) - 2012, 2014 and 2016 at IIIT Hyderabad.

31. Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2012, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.