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The session on Overcoming Data and Compute Challenges held on 20th Jan ignited critical breakthroughs at the Working Group Meeting of #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 in Bengaluru.

Chaired masterfully by Prof. Y. Narahari, Professor, CSA, IISc Bangalore, experts unveiled adaptive architectures, India's data supremacy, and VAANI's linguistic revolution for truly resilient AI infrastructure.

Distinguished Speakers:
✦ Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan - Chairman, IISc Council
✦ Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan - MD, Microsoft Research India
✦ Dr. Prateek Jain - Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind
✦ Prof. Prasanta Kumar Ghosh - Professor, IISc

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.

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!

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

We are thrilled to announce that one paper from SPIRE Lab has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS) 2025, to be held at San Diego, California, USA 30th November-7th December. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

Six SPIRE Lab members participated in the Interspeech 2025 conference activities, poster and paper presentations. We had a great time interacting with the community and experiencing Rotterdam.

We are thrilled to announce that one paper from SPIRE Lab has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding(ASRU) 2025, to be held at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 6th-10th December. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are pleased to inform you that the SYSPIN Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have been successfully uploaded to the BHASHINI platform, making them available for integration by end users and accessible to citizens via the Anuvaad web service and the BHASHINI Mobile Application. This marks a significant step toward enabling inclusive language technologies across India. Special thanks to Pranav and Amartyaveer for their dedicated efforts in making this release possible.

We are thrilled to announce that four papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2025, to be held at Rotterdam, Netherlands. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that the research work of Veerababu Dharanalakota and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh on Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Acoustics is featured in Noise News International (NNI) Magazine! We are honored to be recognized and thank NNI for the opportunity to share our research.

We are proud to share that the project titled 'Development of Physics-based Machine Learning for Sound Propagation' has received NVIDIA Academic Grant. We would like to thank NVIDIA Corporation for their generous support toward this high-impactful research

We are proud to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh received an Honorable Mention for his work, 'Audiopedia Bharat: Bridging the Knowledge Divide with AI ' on LinkedIn social media by Advisor at GIZ India on Artificial Intelligence. We thank Philipp Olbrich and other collaborators of Audiopedia for their support and look forward to continuing our research journey!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Dysarthric Speech Processing' at TCS Research Lab, Kolkata.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Dysarthric Speech Processing (DySP)' in the Department of Information Technology, IIEST, Shibpur, West Bengal.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Dysarthric Speech Processing (DySP)' in a workshop on 'Navigating the frontiers of emerging technologies in engineering' by Gopalan Skill Academy in Gopalan college of Engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka.

We are excited to share that the research work of Prasanta Kumar Ghosh on Indian languages as well as English grammer is featured in Analytics India Magazine! We are honored to be recognized and thank Analytics India Magazine for the opportunity to share our story.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Automatic Speech Recognition: Traditional and End to End Methods' in Faculty Development Program on 'Advances in Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing' at N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Nitte, Udupi Dist, Karnataka.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Dysarthric Speech Processing' at Glasgow Interactive Systems (GIST) - School of Computing Science, Glasgow University.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Are sounds from asthmatic patients different from healthy individuals?' at a faculty development program related to 'Technology Development in Healthcare Applications' in SSN College of Engineering, SSN Nagar, Kalavakkam, Chennai.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Are sounds from asthmatic patients different from healthy individuals?' at FDP on 'Machine and Deep learning research opportunities in Electrical Science Industries' organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology and IQAC in association with MathWorks.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Recent advancements in research using electromagnetic articulography' in a workshop on articulatory dynamics in AIISH, Mysuru.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Are sounds from asthmatic patients different from healthy individuals?' a One-week SERB Sponsored High-End Workshop on 'Deep Learning Based Biomedical Systems: Design Challenges and Future Directions' in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Dysarthric Speech Processing (DySP)' in Seasonal School on 'Recent Trends in Signal, Speech and Image Processing' at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Machine Learning and Signal Processing for Dysarthria Challenges and Opportunities' in workshop under Karyashala scheme (a SERB initiative) on 'Application of Machine Learning in Audio Signal Processing' from 5 - 11 September 2022 at IIITM Gwalior.

We are honored to announce that our paper, 'Whisper to Neutral Mapping Using i-Vector Space Likelihood and a Cosine Similarity Based Iterative Optimization for Whispered Speaker Verification' by Abinay and Achuth, has received the Best Paper Award at NCC 2022 in the Signal Processing track! We thank our collaborators and the organizers for this incredible honor.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh together with other instructors (Chi-Chun Lee, Yu Tsao, Yi-Chiao Wu, Hsin-Min Wang) offered a short course titled 'Speech Technology for Health: From Technical Foundations to Applcations' at ICASSP 2022!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Dysarthric Speech Processing' at second Indo-Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Rehabilitation Robotics at IIIT Bangalore.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Bhavuk Singhal has been sanctioned a travel grant from IEEE SPS to support his participation in ICASSP 2022, to be held in Singapore.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been featured in YourStory! We are honored to be recognized and thank YourStory for the opportunity to share our story.

We are thrilled to announce that four papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2022, to be held at Singapore. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Dysarthric Speech' at IEEE SPS Seasonal School on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Signal Processing 2021 in association with SPS IEEE Hyderabad section and WIE AG IEEE Hyderabad section.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Speech Signal Processing for Dysarthria' at the ATAL FDP course on Recent Trends in Speech Processing at IIT Dharwad.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Invariant and Variant Characteristics in Speech Articulation' at the iNNterpret, Special Session, S2 at ICON 2021: 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, held at NIT Silchar, India.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Analysis and Characterisation of Dysarthric Speech' at the Department of Electronics and Communication of NIT Meghalaya during a five day national workshop on 'Application of Machine Learning for Communication and Signal Processing' (22-26 Nov 2021).

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Articulatory representations and their relation to acoustics in speech production' at SAIL Lab, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Dysarthric Speech Processing - Challenges and Opportunities' as a part of the IEEE-week celebration by IEEE Signal Processing Society Student Branch, NIT-Karnataka (NITK), India.

We are excited to share that open source tech aimed at developing open source ASR and TTS corpus and models under RESPIN and SYSPIN projects in Hindi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Maghadi, Chhattisgarhi, Maithili, Marathi, Telugu, and Kannada, are featured in Times of India! We are honored to be recognized and thank Times of India for the opportunity to share our story.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Training data design for ASR and TTS systems' in a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Automatic Speech Recognition and Speaker Verification organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Sikkim and AICTE Delhi.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Dysarthric Speech Processing' in a Five Day Online Short Term Course (STC) under the TIH platform on 'Deep Learning-Based Speech Processing Technique for Smart Health and Education System- Concept, Recent Trends, and Key Challenges' organized by IIT Patna.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a webinar talk on 'Automatic Speech Recognition and Deep Learning' at IIIT Vadodara.

We are proud to share that Karthik received an Honorable Mention for our work, 'A Scalable Deep Learning Model for Arbitrary Transmitter Configurations in Inverse Scattering' submitted to the 2021 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition. We thank the organizers and our collaborators for their support and look forward to continuing our research journey!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'The impact of training data design on the performance of TTS and ASR systems' in the Indian Language Symposium organized by IEEE TEMS Bangalore section.

We are thrilled to announce that three papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of EMBC 2021. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are thrilled to announce that Abinay Reddy Naini has successfully defended his M.Tech (Research) thesis. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes for future endeavors!

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

We are delighted to announce that Karthik (PhD scholar) has been awarded the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) for the year 2021. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Ms. Tanuka Bhattacharjee has been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support her participation in InterSpeech 2021, to be held in Czech Republic.

We are thrilled to announce that six papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2021, to be held at Czech Republic. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'The journey of Vidyut in IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2016' in the IMPULSE (Intensive Mentoring Program for Upcoming Leaders in Signal processing) program for UG students at the College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala sponsored by IEEE signal processing society.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Role of Deep Learning in Automatic Speech Recognition' in the Workshop on Machine Learning for Speech Processing at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Sikkim.

We are excited to share that English Gyani: An Interactive Tutoring App being developed at SPIRE Lab, aimed at improving English comprehension and reading skill with guidance in vernacular, featured in Bangalore Mirror! We are honored to be recognized and thank Bangalore Mirror for the opportunity to share our story.

We are excited to share that SPIRE Lab has been featured in IISc Kernel, a platform for research news at IISc! We are honored to be recognized and thank IISc Kernel for the opportunity to share our story.

We are thrilled to announce that three papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2021, to be held at Ontario, Canada. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are proud to announce that our PhD student Chiranjeevi Yarra has joined as an Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad. Congratulations to him on this milestone, and best wishes for his careers!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Deep Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition' at the Faculty Development Program on 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning' organized by MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore.

We are thrilled to share that the project 'Listener Drone: A 5G Use Case for Environment, Public Safety and Disaster Management', by our ex-lab members, Annesya Banerjee and Achal Nilhani, has been selected among the Top 30 projects by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Govt. of India, at the 5G Hackathon 2020. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement, and may this inspire more groundbreaking accomplishments ahead!

We are delighted to announce that Tanuka (PhD scholar) has been awarded the prestigious PMRF in the May 2020 cycle. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Karthik (PhD scholar) has been awarded the prestigious RBCCPS PhD Fellowship for 2020-21 academic year. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Manthan Sharma (MTEch student) has been awarded the prestigious MTech CPS Research Grant 2020-21. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are thrilled to announce that eight papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2020, to be held in Shanghai, China. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are thrilled to announce that Mannem Renuka has successfully defended her M.Tech thesis. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes for future endeavors!

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

We are thrilled to announce that two papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of SPCOM 2020, to be held in IISc Bangalore, India. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are thrilled to share that Annesya Banerjee and Achal Nilhani, ex-interns of SPIRE Lab, won the online hackathon on 'Solution of COVID-19' hosted by the Center of Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND) at the University of California Berkeley. Grateful to the organizers for this engaging experience and looking forward to more challenges ahead.

We are thrilled to announce that six papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2020. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are delighted to announce the promotion of Prasanta Kumar Ghosh to the position of Associate Professor at IISc Bangalore. Congratulations on this well-deserved milestone, and best wishes for continued success in this new role and beyond!

We are proud to announce that Nisha Meenakshi has received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from IndSCA at WiSSAP 2020, organised at IIT Mandi. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement, and best wishes for continued success in future endeavors!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Speech signal processing methods' in the winter school on Applied Signal Processing at IIT Gandhinagar.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Can snore sound tell its origin?' at IEEE SPS Winter School on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Bangalore, India.

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

We are excited to announce the acceptance of our project proposal, 'Development of Pnoi-phone, a device for detection and monitoring asthma', by the IEEE Bangalore Section Student Innovation Project (BS-SIP 2019). Congratulations to the project members: Shivani Yadav, Mohammad Shaique Solanki, Rashmi D and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh.

We are delighted to welcome Tanuka Bhattacharjee as a PhD student, and Anwesha Roy as a MTech (Research) student to our lab.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Chiranjeevi Yarra has been sanctioned a travel grant from Pratiksha Trust to attend InterSpeech 2019, to be held in Graz, Austria.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Aravind Illa and Abinay Reddy have received travel support from Indian Speech Communication Association to attend InterSpeech 2019, to be held in Graz, Austria.

We are delighted to announce that Mannem Renuka, Manoj R Kumar and Atreyee Saha have been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support their participation in InterSpeech 2019, to be held in Graz, Austria.

We are thrilled to announce that eight papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2019, to be held at Graz, Austria. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that Vishay Raina has won the bronze medal at the 1st Karnataka State Jiu Jitsu competition in the 56 kg category held at Decathlon, Mysore organized by Sport Jiu Jitsu Federation.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Achuth Rao M V has been sanctioned a travel grant from Pratiksha Trust to attend InterSpeech 2019, to be held in Graz, Austria.

We are delighted to announce that Aravind Illa and Mannem Renuka have been sanctioned a travel grant from IEEE SPS to support his participation in ICASSP 2019, to be held in Brighton, UK.

We are thrilled to announce that five papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2019, to be held Brighton, UK. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are delighted to welcome Girija Ramesan Karthik as a PhD student, upon successfully defending his M.Tech thesis.

We are excited to announce that our lab members participated in INDICON 2028, held in Coimbatore, India.

We are thrilled to announce that Karthik and Pavan have successfully defended their M.Tech thesis. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes for future endeavors!

We are excited to announce that our lab members participated in InterSpeech 2018, held in Hyderabad, India. Eleven papers were accepted for publication in the proceedings of the conference.

We are honored to announce that a paper by Pavan Karjol has received the Best Paper Award at SPCOM 2018, held in IISc Bengaluru, India.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'The orchestra behind speech' at Speech and Hearing Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Obstruction site prediction from snore sound' at IISc-UCL workshop on the themes of Systems Neuroscience, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, co-sponsored by the UCL Global Engagement Office and the Gatsby Unit.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Achuth, Mr. Parth and Mr. Valliappan has been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support her participation in InterSpeech 2018, to be held in Hyderabad, India.

We are thrilled to announce that eleven papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2018, to be held at Hyderabad, India. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Pavan Karjol, Mr. Advait Koparkar have been sanctioned a travel grant from IEEE SPS to support his participation in ICASSP 2018, to be held in Alberta, Canada.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Recent trends in kinematics and motion capture studies in speech production' at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru.

We are thrilled to announce that six papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2018, to be held at Alberta, Canada. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are delighted to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been awarded the prestigious Prof. Priti Shankar Teaching Award for Assistant Professor 2017. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Seeing Speech' at Second Workshop on Brain, Computation, and Learning, 2018, IISc Bangalore.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Human centered signal processing for non-invasive detection and monitoring of health parameters' at Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Kolkata.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to offer a tutorial on 'Time frequency analysis of time-varying signals' at the CEP on 'Technologies for Data Analysis and Visualization' at CAIR, DRDO Complex, CV Raman Nagar, Bangalore.

We are delighted to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been awarded the prestigious Pratiksha Trust Young Investigator Award for 2017. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Discriminative Filtering: a Non-ASR Approach to Keyword Spotting' at the 2017 Speech Signal Processing Workshop in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Posteriorgram based techniques for spotting keywords in audio' at the department of Information Science and Engineering at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, MSR Nagar, Bangalore.

We are thrilled to announce that three papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of EUSIPCO 2017, to be held at Kos Island, Greece. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are thrilled to announce that six papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2017, to be held at Stockholm, Sweden. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Karthik and Mr. Abhishek has been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support her participation in InterSpeech 2017, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden.

We are delighted to announce that Kausthubha N K has received an award in the competition during Kannada Rajyotsava celebration at IISc Bangalore in 2016

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to offer a tutorial on 'Binaural localization, rendering and head related transfer function' at 12th Winter School on Audio Speech and Signal Processing 2017 at IISc, Bangalore.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to deliver a talk on 'Does electromagnetic articulograph provide time varying vocal tract shape in human speech production?' in the Department of Computer Science, IIT Madras.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Organized a seminar talk on 'Real Virtuality: Space Travellers' by Dr. Caecilia Charbonnier, President and Research Director, Artanim, Geneva, Switzerland.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to offer a tutorial on 'Time frequency analysis of time-varying signals' at the CEP on 'Technologies for Data Analysis and Visualization' at CAIR, DRDO Complex, CV Raman Nagar, Bangalore.

We are excited to share that an artitle titled 'IPTeL: Protecting Ideas and Innovations' written by Nisha Meenakshi featured in IISc Kernel, a platform for research news at IISc! We are honored to be recognized and thank IISc Kernel for the opportunity to share our story.

We are thrilled to announce that two papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2016, to be held at Shanghai, China. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Organized ISCA Distinguished Lecture on 'Multimodal behavioral informatics for health applications' by Prof. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Organized a seminar talk on 'Enhancing clinical voice assessment with smartphone-based ambulatory voice monitoring' by Dr Daryush Mehta, Assistant Biomedical Engineer, Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, USA.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Aditya Gaonkar has been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support his participation in InterSpeech 2016, to be held in Shanghai, China.

We are thrilled to announce that two papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2016, to be held at Shanghai, China. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are thrilled to announce that Mr. Vidyt has secured 3rd place in IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2016. Congratulations to all the team members of Vidyut on this well-deserved success, and we wish you continued growth and achievement in your academic and professional journey ahead!

We are thrilled to announce that Mr. Achuth has secured 3rd place in Rapid Chess tournament organized by IISc chess club during Spectrum-2016 fest.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Organized a seminar talk on 'Exploiting latent reliability information for classification tasks' by Naveen Kumar, Ph.D. candidate, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

We are excited to share that an article by Ms. Nisha Meenakshi and Ms. Bharti Dharapuram has been featured in IISc Connect, a platform for research news at IISc! We are honored to be recognized and thank IISc Connect for the opportunity to share our story.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Mr. Navaneet K L, and Ms. Supriya N have been sanctioned a travel grant from IEEE SPS to support his participation in ICASSP 2016, to be held in Shanghai, China.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Organized a seminar talk on 'Toward rapid prototyping of multimodal and spoken dialog systems from scratch for educational applications' by Dr. Vikram Ramanarayanan, Associate Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research at San Francisco, California.

We are thrilled to announce that two papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2016, to be held at Shanghai, China. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to offer a tutorial on 'Speech production research -- opportunities and challenges' at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology, Government Engineering College Trichur, Thrissur, India.

We are excited to share that an article by Ms. Nisha Meenakshi has been featured in IISc Connect, a platform for research news at IISc! We are honored to be recognized and thank IISc Connect for the opportunity to share our story.

We are excited to share that our ongoing work on speech disorders is featured in Deccan Herald! We are honored to be recognized and thank Deccan Herald for the opportunity to share our story.

We are delighted to announce that an article by Satyabrata and Ashok, titled 'Estimation of the air-tissue boundaries of the vocal tract in the mid-sagittal plane from electromagnetic articulograph data' got into the Finalists for Best Student Papers in InterSpeech 2015. We are proud of this achievement. Congratulations!

We are excited to share that our ongoing work on whispered speech is featured in Deccan Herald! We are honored to be recognized and thank Deccan Herald for the opportunity to share our story.

We are delighted to welcome Balaji P as a PhD student under BioEngineering program, Girija Ramesan Karthik and Pavan Subhaschandra Karjol as MSc students to our lab.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Abhay Prasad has been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support his participation in InterSpeech 2015, to be held in Dresden, Germany.

We are thrilled to announce that four papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2015, to be held in Dresden, Germany. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are thrilled to announce that Ms. Miditha has secured 4th place in IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015. Congratulations to all the team members of Miditha on this well-deserved success, and we wish you continued growth and achievement in your academic and professional journey ahead!

We are delighted to announce that Ms. Vijitha Periyasamy has been sanctioned a travel grant from IEEE SPS to support his participation in ICASSP 2015, to be held in Brisbane, Queensland.

We are thrilled to announce that one paper from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2015, to be held in Brisbane, Queensland. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to offer a tutorial on 'A communication perspective to speech processing' at the Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2015 at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.

We are delighted to welcome Aravind Illa as a PhD student to our lab.

We are delighted to welcome Achuth Rao as MSc (Engg) student to our lab.

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Abhay Prasad and Ms. Nisha Meenakshi has been sanctioned ISCA travel grant to support her participation in InterSpeech 2014, to be held in Singapore.

We are thrilled to announce that four papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2014, to be held in Singapore. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are delighted to announce that Chiranjeevi Yaraa (PhD scholar) has been awarded the prestigious PMRF in the May 2014 cycle. We are proud of this achievement and excited for the opportunities it brings. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Abhijith M N and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh have been sanctioned a travel grant from IEEE SPS to support his participation in ICASSP 2014, to be held in Florence, Italy.

We are thrilled to announce that four papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ICASSP 2014, to be held in Florence, Italy. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.

We are excited to share that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh has been invited to offer a tutorial on 'Speech Processing and Its Applications' at the workshop on 'Digital Signal Processing and Information Processing' in the Department of Information Science and Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

We are delighted to welcome Chiranjeevi Yarra and Nisha Meenakshi as PhD students to our lab.

We are pleased to announce that Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Organized a seminar talk on 'Whole Slide Image Analysis for Digital Pathology - An Overview' by Dr. Anindya Sarkar, Senior Imaging Scientist at Ventana Medical Systems, Mountain View, California.

We are thrilled to announce that three papers from SPIRE Lab have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of InterSpeech 2013, to be held in Lyon, France. We are excited to share our research findings with the community and engage in meaningful discussions.