Assistive Speech Technologies

To develop annotated dysarthric speech database in Tamil, Hindi, and Indian English for 20 speakers each with varying degrees of the disorder.
To develop assessment and therapy tools for speech articulatory disorders.
To develop ASR systems for dysarthric speakers
To develop TTS with adaptive speech rate for people with articulation disorders and visually challenged.
To develop an infant cry database for early detection of ASD and pathology classification
To develop children's speech database for ASD and articulation disorders
To develop children's speech database for ASR with reference to consortium effort
To develop speech-based emotion recognition for disordered speech, such as dysarthria.

Conversational data (simple sentences) of around 500 sentences are formulated for English, Tamil, and Hindi.
Literature survey.
Sample wav files of dysarthric speech and their corresponding intelligible speech, modified using DNN-HMM framework.