Welcome! I am a PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
Since Fall 2012, I have been working on Speech-to-Speech translation with my advisors Alan Black and Joy Zhang.
For my Master's at the LTI, I worked on the automatic evaluation and visualization of children's oral reading prosody, based on data from Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor. I was advised by Prof. Jack Mostow.
My research interests include speech processing and its applications, especially Text-to-Speech, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Speech-to-speech translation and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. I'm also interested in Usability and Speech Interfaces. I like working on systems that have immediate practical applications, and I have a special interest in Indian languages.
Prior to coming to CMU, I got a B.Tech. in Computer Engineering from NIT Surat, India, and worked for a startup in Hyderabad that built Spoken Dialogue Systems in Indian langauges. If you are a startup doing interesting work in Speech/NLP (especially Indian languages!), please get in touch :)
Please take a look at my Academics page to find out about my coursework at CMU and my Projects page for a list of publications and more details about my research.