IIT Guwahati speech

In which year Electro Medical and Speech Technology of IIT Guwahati was set up , can you here give me some basic information about it??

[Kiran Chandar]

Electro Medical and Speech Technology Laboratory was set up in Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering during 2004 with main aim to be a leading research and development group in the biomedical and speech processing areas.

Research Activities
Speech Processing
Speech Signal Processing
Speech analysis
Feature extraction
Speech Recognition
Stressed speech recognition
Children's speech recognition
Speech Synthesis
Expressive speech synthesis
Source models for speech synthesis
Speaker Recognition
Speaker recognition under limited data condition
Speaker recognition under stressed condition
Speaker recognition using excitation source features
Speech Enhancement
Temporal processing for enhancement
Spectral processing for enhancement
Combined temporal and spectral methods for enhancement

Biomedical Signal Processing
Cardio vascular signal processing
Fundus image processing
EMG signal processing
Multi-channel ECG signal processing
Low cost electro-medical systems
Tele medicine applications

Biometrics
Unimodal Biometric System
Speaker verification system
Face verification system
Signature verification system
Handwriting verification system
Multimodal Biometric System
Speech and signature verification system
Face, speech and signature verification system
Face, speech, signature and handwriting verification system
Handwriting Data Processing
Offline handwriting recognition
Online handwriting recognition
Signature verification
Handwriting based biometric person authentication

Sponsored Projects
Suprasegmental Features."
Funding Agency: DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Prof. S. Dandapat and Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna
Duration: 2013 to 2015.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Multimodel Broadcast Analytics - Structured Evedence Visualization for Event of Security Concern."
Funding Agency: DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. Prithwijit Guha, Dr. S. Ranbir Singh (Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati), Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna, Prof. S. Nandi (Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati)
Duration: 2013 to 2016.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Acoustic and Tonal Features Based Analysis of Mizo."
Funding Agency: DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. Priyankoo Sarmah (Dept. of HSS, IIT Guwahati), Dr. P.K. Das (Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati), Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna
Duration: 2012 to 2015.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Digital Preservation Analysis and Technology Development of the Languages of the North-East."
Funding Agency: DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. Sakuntala Mahanta (Dept. of HSS, IIT Guwahati), Dr. Priyankoo Sarmah (Dept. of HSS, IIT Guwahati), Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna and Prof. Sukumar Nandi (Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati)
Duration: 2012 to 2015.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Development of Computer Aided Tools for Speech and Language Learning."
Funding Agency: IBM.
Investigators: Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna
Duration: 2011 to 2014.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Development of Text to Speech System in Assamese and Manipuri Languages."
Funding Agency: TDIL division, DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna, and Dr. Ranbir Singh (Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati)
Duration: 2011 to 2014.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Development of Medical Image Processing Laboratory."
Funding Agency: DST-FIST, New Delhi.
Investigators: Prof. S. Dandapat, Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna, Dr. Rohit Sinha and Mr. L. N. Sharma
Duration: 2010 to 2015.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Online Assamese Handwriting Recognition System."
Funding Agency: TDIL division, DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna, Dr. C. Mahanta and Mr. L. N. Sharma
Duration: 2010 to 2013.
Status: Ongoing

Project Title: "Assamese Agricultural Commodities Recognition System."
Funding Agency: TDIL division, DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. Rohit Sinha, Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna and Dr. P. K. Das(Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati)
Duration: 2010 to 2012.
Status: Completed

Project Title: "Development of Person Authentication System based on Speaker Verification in Uncontrolled Environment"
Funding Agency: E-security division, DIT New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna, Prof. Sukumar Nandi (Dept. CSE, IIT Guwahati) , Dr. Rohit Sinha & Prof. S. Dandapat
Duration: 2009 to 2012.
Status: Completed
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Project Title: "Children Speech Recognition."
Funding Agency: DST New Delhi.
Investigators: Dr. Rohit Sinha and Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna
Duration: 2009 to 2012.
Status: Completed

Project Title: "Study of Source Features for Speech Synthesis and Speaker Recognition"
Funding Agency: UK-INDIA Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).
Investigators: Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna, Prof. S.Dandapat, Prof. B. Yegnanarayana (IIIT Hyderabad) and Dr. Simon King (CSTR,UK)
Duration: 2007 to 2011.
Status: Completed

Project Title: "Keyword spotting in continuous speech"
Funding Agency: DST and Swiss National Science Foundation
Investigators: Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna, Prof. B. Yegnanarayana & Prof. Hynek Hermansky
Indo-Swiss Joint Research Project between IIT Guwahati, IIIT Hyderabad, & IDIAP Switzerland
Duration: 2005 to 2008
Status: Completed

Address
Electro Medical and Speech Technology Laboratory
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Doul Govinda Road, Amingaon
Guwahati, Assam 781039

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