CV

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Developing end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis systems for Indian languages, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2017 - 2024
• Master of Science (MS) by Research, Cross-lingual Speech Synthesis and Enhancement of Dysarthric Speech, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2013 - 2016
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, RNS Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, 2008 - 2012

Work experience

• Principal Project Officer @ ICSR, IIT Madras - [Jul 2022 - Mar 2023]
  • Speech Technologies in Indian Languages (as part of Bhashini- National Language Translation Mission), funded by the Ministry of Electronic & Information Technology (Meity), Govt. of India.
• Teaching Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology Madras - [Jul 2017 - Jun 2022]
  • Teaching Assistant for different courses (Speech Signal Processing (post-graduate level), Signals & Systems (under-graduate level), Digital Signal Processing (under-graduate and post-graduate levels)) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, including being Head TA (Jan - May 2019).
• Project Staff (part-time) @ ICSR, IIT Madras - [Apr 2020 - Jun 2022]
  • Speech Technologies in Indian Languages - [Apr 2022 - Jun 2022]
    • As part of Bhashini- National Language Translation Mission, funded by the Ministry of Electronic & Information Technology (Meity), Govt. of India.
  • Automatic Speech Recognition in Indian English, Tamil, Hindi, and Text to Speech Synthesis for conversational speech in Indian languages - [Apr 2020 - Mar 2022]
    • As part of National Language Translation Mission Pilot, funded by the Ministry of Electronic & Information Technology (Meity), Govt. of India.
  • Speech to Speech Machine Translation - [Apr 2020 - Mar 2022]
    • Funded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA), Govt. of India.
  • Text to Speech Generation with chosen accent and noise profile for Aerospace and Industrial domains - [Apr 2020 - Feb 2021]
    • Funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.
• Project Officer @ ICSR, IIT Madras - [Jun 2014 - Jun 2017]
  • Development of Text to Speech systems for Indian languages, funded by the Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India
• Project Associate @ ICSR, IIT Madras - [Jul 2012 - Mat 2014]
  • Development of Text to Speech systems for Indian languages, funded by the Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India

Skills

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, Perl
• Deep Learning Tools: PyTorch, Merlin, ESPNet
• Other Tools/Libraries: MATLAB, LaTeX, Festival, HTS, HTK, Kaldi
• Text-to-Speech (TTS) system development and deployment for 15 Indian languages
• Speech singal processing
• Deep learning models for speech

Select Publications

Towards Developing State-of-the-Art TTS Synthesisers for 13 Indian Languages with Signal Processing aided Alignments

Anusha Prakash, S. Umesh and Hema A. Murthy, "Towards Developing State-of-The-Art TTS Synthesisers for 13 Indian Languages with Signal Processing Aided Alignments", 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389630.

Exploring the Role of Language Families for Building Indic Speech Synthesisers

Anusha Prakash and Hema A. Murthy, "Exploring the Role of Language Families for Building Indic Speech Synthesisers", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 31, pp. 734-747, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2022.3230453.

Generic Indic Text-to-Speech Synthesisers with Rapid Adaptation in an End-to-End Framework

Anusha Prakash and Hema A. Murthy, "Generic Indic Text-to-Speech Synthesisers with Rapid Adaptation in an End-to-End Framework", in Proc. Interspeech, 2020, 2962-2966, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2663.

Achievements

• Accepted to the ICASSP Rising Stars in Signal Processing Workshop, 2023, and presented thesis work on “Developing End-to-End Speech Synthesis Systems for Indian Languages”.
• Accepted to the Doctoral Consortium Workshop, INTERSPEECH, 2019, and presented work on “End-to-End Speech Synthesis for Indian Languages”.
• Received Gold Medal for the Highest Scorer of the batch 2008-2012 in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department, RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.