A team of researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad has developed an innovative Silent Speech Interface (SSI) that can convert non-audible murmurs into vocalised speech. This groundbreaking technology has the potential to improve communication for people with speech impairments. The research team, led by TCS researcher and PhD student Neil Shah, along with Neha Sahipjohn and Vishal Tambrahalli, worked under the guidance of Dr Ramanathan Subramanian and Prof Vineet Gandhi.

AI has been put into play by researchers at IIITH, to demonstrate how information can be quickly mined from documents. While the AI process developed by them was used to analyse, extract and tag information from documents of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the researchers pointed out that it can be easily applied to many other domains such as health, scientific literature, manuals etc. The researchers developed a multi-layer Applied Semantics Extraction and Analytics (ASEA) framework for document processing with the support of JP Morgan AI Faculty Research Award.

IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab was awarded ‘Best Education Institute Exhibit of the Year’ at the India Mobile Congress Exhibition. The eighth edition of India Mobile Congress took place from 15-18 October 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, in concurrence with WTSA’24, the governing conference of the ITU Standardization Sector (ITU-T). The event featured global attendance, including international delegates from diverse sectors such as member states, standardization bodies, industries, academia, and start-ups.