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Spire Lab Achievements

SPIRE Lab News

Voice Tech For All Challenge Finals

We are pleased to inform you that the Voice Tech For All Challenge for developing Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems on 11 Indian languages (SYSPIN & SPICOR datasets) concluded on Jan 28, 2026 at IISc Bengaluru. The team from Immversive Innovations Pvt Ltd bagged the first place.

Congratulations to Anjali

We are thrilled to announce that Anjali Jayakumar has successfully defended her M.Tech (Research) thesis. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes for future endeavors!

Congratulations to Tanuka

We are thrilled to announce that Tanuka Bhattacharjee has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes for future endeavors!

Speaker Conditioned Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion

Presentation on 'Speaker Conditioned Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion Using x-Vectors' at InterSpeech 2020 Shanghai, China.

RESPIN Project

Speech recognition in agriculture and finance for the poor is an initiative to create resources and make them available in the open-source domain to spur research and innovation in speech recognition in nine different Indian languages in the area of agriculture and finance.

Evaluation of Indian English pronunciation

The study involves development of an interactive system which can assess, diagnose and track the Indian English spoken language learners.

Identification of speakers using head gestures in a narration

Head gestures convey intensity of speech and a lot of paralinguistic information. This study contributes to Automatic Identification of speakers using head gestures.

In the words of our alumni

Contributing to the Open Day demos was an amazing experience!!

Chandana Srinivasa

My most memorable experience was when we were pulling all-nighters to submit the Interspeech 2017 paper before the deadline.

Akshay Kalkunte Suresh

Team Snacks after Friday Lab Talk was a lot of fun !!

Avinash Kumar

SP Cup 2015 and SP Cup 2016 were some of my most fun projects ever.

Pradyumna Byappanahalli Suresha

I had a lot of fun working on cutting-edge speech recognition projects. This has tremendously helped me in finding jobs.

Shashidhar Prabhu

The internship was a huge learning experience both in terms of research as well as many other useful skills that helped me grow as an individual. Prasanta Sir has always been a great teacher and mentor.

Amber Afshan

It has been a great experience working with people at Spire Lab, I got to meet many new people who were very supportive and helpful.

Utkarsh Choubey

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