Chiranjeevi Yarra

Chiranjeevi Yarra

Assistant Professor, LTRC, IIIT-Hyderabad




 
Journals (Accepted and/or Published):
  1. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Supriya Nagesh, Om D. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Noise robust speech rate estimation using SNR dependent sub-band selection and peak detection strategy," in The Journal of Acoustic Society of America, 146(3), pp. 1615-1628, 2019.[pdf]

  2. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Automatic intonation classification for British English speech using temporal patterns in utterance-level pitch contour and perceptually motivated pitch transformation," in The Journal of Acoustic Society of America-Express Letters (JASA-EL), 2018.[pdf]

  3. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Om D. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A frame selective dynamic programming (FSDP) approach for noise robust pitch estimation," in The Journal of Acoustic Society of America (JASA), 144(4), pp. 2289-2300, 2018. [pdf]

  4. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Om D. Deshmukh, and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A mode-shape classification technique for robust speechrate estimation and syllable nuclei detection", in Speech Communication, Elsevier, 78, pp. 62-71, 2016. [pdf]

Journals (Under review and/or preparation):

  1. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Vijaya Krishna Nagnoor, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A study on speech rhythm discrimination among seven Indian languages -- Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu," under review.

  2. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Automatic syllable stress detection under non-parallel label and data conditions," under review.

  3. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Noise robust pitch stylization using minimum absolute error criterion," under review.

  4. Aparna Srinivasan, Divya Singh, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Aravind Illa, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A robust speaking rate estimator using a CNN-BLSTM network," under review.

Conferences (Accepted and/or Published):

  1. Kausthubha N K, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Om D. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "SPIRE-ABC: An online tool for acoustic-unit boundary correction (ABC) via crowdsourcing", in Oriental COCOSDA 2020, Yangon, Myanmar. [pdf]

  2. Avni Rajpal, Achuth Rao MV, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Ritu Aggarwal, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “Pseudo likelihood correction technique for low resource accented ASR”, in ICASSP 2020, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

  3. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Ritu Aggarwal, Avni Rajpal, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “Indic TIMIT and Indic English lexicon: A speech database of Indian speakers using TIMIT stimuli and a lexicon from their mispronunciations”, in Oriental COCOSDA 2019, Cebu City, Philippines. [pdf]

  4. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Aparna Srinivasan, Chandana Srinivasa, Ritu Aggarwal, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “voisTUTOR corpus: A speech corpus of Indian L2 English learners for pronunciation assessment”, in Oriental COCOSDA 2019, Cebu City, Philippines. [pdf]

  5. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Manoj Kumar Ramanathi, Prasanta kumar Ghosh, "Comparison of automatic syllable stress detection quality with time-aligned boundaries and context dependencies," accepted for Interspeech workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2019), Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  6. Aparna Srinivasan, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Automatic assessment of pronunciation and its dependent factors by exploring their interdependencies using DNN and LSTM", accepted for Interspeech workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2019), Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  7. Sweekar Sudhakara, Manoj Kumar Ramanathi, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Anurag Das, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “A comparative study of noise robustness of goodness of pronunciation (GoP) measures and its modifications based on teacher's utterance”, accepted for Interspeech workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2019), Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  8. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “voisTUTOR: Virtual Operator for Interactive Spoken English TUTORing”, accepted for Interspeech workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2019), Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  9. Atreyee Saha, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “Low resource automatic intonation classification using gated recurrent unit (GRU) networks pre-trained with synthesized pitch patterns,” accepted for Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  10. Manoj Kumar Ramanathi, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “ASR inspired unsupervised syllable stress detection for pronunciation evaluation,” accepted for Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  11. Sweekar Sudhakara, Manoj Kumar Ramanathi, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “An improved goodness of pronunciation (GoP) measure for pronunciation evaluation with DNN-HMM system considering HMM transition probabilities,” accepted for Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  12. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Aparna Srinivasan, Srvani Gottimukkala, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, “SPIRE-fluent: A self-learning app for tutoring oral fluency to second language English leanrers,” accepted for Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.[pdf]

  13. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "An automatic classification of intonation using temporal structure in utterance-level pitch patterns for British English speech," in Indicon 2018, Coimbatore, India. [pdf]

  14. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Achuth Rao MV, Om D. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Automatic identification of native language from non-native spoken English audio using novel acoustic and prosodic feature selection strategies," in Indicon 2018, Coimbatore, India. [pdf]

  15. Chiranjeevi Yarra, "Temporal analysis of spoken language learning for automatic tutoring" in Fourth Doctoral Consortium, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

  16. Chandana S, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Ritu Aggarwal, Sanjeev Kumar Mittal, Kausthubha N K, Raseena K T, Astha Singh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Automatic visual augmentation for concatenation based synthesized articulatory videos from real-time MRI data for spoken language training," in Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

  17. Anand P A, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Kausthubha N K, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Intonation tutor by SPIRE (In-SPIRE): An online tool for an automatic feedback to the second language learners in learning intonation," in Interspeech 2019, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

  18. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Anand P A, Kausthubha N K, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "SPIRE-SST: An automatic web-based self-learning tool for syllable stress tutoring (SST) to the second language learners," in Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]

  19. Urvish Desai, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Concatenative articulatory video synthesis using real-time MRI data for spoken language training", in ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada. [pdf]

  20. Srinivasa Raghavan, Nisha Meenakshi, Sanjeev Kumar Mittal, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Anupam Mandal, KR Prasanna Kumar, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A comparative study on the effect of different codecs on speech recognition accuracy using various acoustic modeling techniques", in Twenty-third National Conference on communications (NCC) 2017, Chennai, India. [pdf]

  21. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Om D. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Automatic detection of syllable stress using sonority based prominence features for pronunciation evaluation", in ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, USA. [pdf]

  22. Supriya Nagesh, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Om D. Deshmukh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A robust speech rate estimation based on the activation profile from the selected acoustic unit dictionary", in ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China. [pdf]

  23. Nisha Meenakshi, Chiranjeevi Yarra, B. K. Yamini, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "Comparison of speech quality with and without sensors in electromagnetic articulograph AG 501 recording." , in Interspeech 2014, MAX Atria, Singapore. [pdf]

  24. Chiranjeevi Yarra, Santosh Biswas and Siddarth Mukhopadhayay, "Synthesis of analog inputs for testing of digital modules in mixed signal VLSI circuits", in Thirteenth VDAT symposium 2009, Bangalore, India. [pdf]

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