ASR makes the world your oyster
IIITH is poised to disrupt Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in India by building a six language multi-lingual system by August 2021. Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala from IIITH’s Speech Processing Lab helps deconstruct this emerging industry. Industry pundits forecast that the Indian speech domain is destined to be a multi-million-dollar market, with international conglomerates lining up […]
Lydia Manikonda – Seeking a Moral Compass in the Digital Age
Like millions of youngsters her age in India, IIT was the ultimate goal for Lydia. But goalposts have a strange way of shifting willy-nilly. For Lydia Manikonda, it was a chance comment by her brother’s lecturer that her AIEEE rank would fetch her a seat in a great school like IIIT-Hyderabad, that set her career […]
‘Echo’es of IIITH in Seattle
From a backbencher with a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIITH to the saddle of a principal engineer at Amazon, Seattle, IIITH alumnus Vikram Gundeti’s journey has been one of opportunities turned into achievements. We sat down with Vikram to deconstruct what fires his synapses. Early days and influences When Vikram Gundeti completed his intermediate […]