Speech and Language Processing for Human-Machine Communications

AC: An Audio Classifier to Classify Violent Extensive Audios.- Document-to-Sentence Level Technique for Novelty Detection.- Continuous Hindi Speech Recognition in Real Time Using NI LabVIEW.- Gujarati Braille Text Recognition: A Design Approach.- Development of Embedded Platform for Sanskrit Grammar-Based Document Summarization.- Approach for Information Retrieval by Using Self Organizing Map and Crisp Set.- An Automatic Spontaneous Speech Recognition System for Punjabi Language.- A System for the Conversion of Digital Gujarati Text to Speech for Visually Impaired People.- Hidden Markov Model for Speech Recognition System- A Pilot Study and a Naive Approach for Speech-to-Text Model.- Speaker Independent Recognition System for Continuous Hindi Speech Using Probabilistic Model.- A Robust Technique for Handwritten Words Segmentation into Individual Characters.- Developing Speech-Based Web Browsers for Visually Impaired Users.- Adaptive Infrared Images Enhancement Using Fuzzy Based Concepts.- Towards Machine Translation Linguistic Issues of Indian Sign Language.- Analysis of Emotion Recognition System for Telugu Using Prosodic and Formant Features.- Simple Term Filtering for Location-Based Tweets Classification.- Security Analysis of Scalable Speech Coders.- Issues in i-vector modeling: An analysis of total variability space and UBM size.- Acoustic Representation of Monophthongs with Special Reference to Bodo Language.- Detection of Human Emotion from Speech - Tools and Techniques.- Phonetic Transcription Comparison for Emotional Database for Speech Synthesis.- The State-of-the-Art of Feature Extraction Techniques in Speech Recognition.- Challenges and Issues in Adopting Speech Recognition.

Dr. Shyam Sunder Agrawal is a World-renowned scientist and a teacher in the area of Acoustic Speech and Communication. He obtained his Ph.D in 1970 from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is having a research experience of about 45 years at the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani and subsequently as Emeritus Scientist of The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), and as Advisor to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Noida. He was a Guest Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ohio State University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in USA. His major areas of interest are Spoken Language Processing and Development of Speech Databases and has steered many National and International projects. He has published a large number of papers, guided many Ph.D students and received Honours and Awards in India and abroad. He is currently working as the Director General of the KIIT Group of Colleges, Gurgaon, Haryana.



Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Dev obtained her B.Tech degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh and completed her postgraduation from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. She obtained her Ph.D degree from the Delhi College of Engineering under University of Delhi in the area of Computer Science. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Computer Society of India (CSI). She has more than 30 years of experience and is presently working as thea Principal of the Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Delhi and Bhai Parmanand Institute of Business Studies, Delhi under the Department of Training and Technical Education, Government of National Capi

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tory of Delhi (NCT). She has been awarded the "National Level Best Engineering Teachers Award" in the year 2001 by the ISTE for her