SaiKrishna Rallabandi


2018

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Automatic Detection of Code-switching Style from Acoustics
SaiKrishna Rallabandi | Sunayana Sitaram | Alan W Black
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching

Multilingual speakers switch between languages in an non-trivial fashion displaying inter sentential, intra sentential, and congruent lexicalization based transitions. While monolingual ASR systems may be capable of recognizing a few words from a foreign language, they are usually not robust enough to handle these varied styles of code-switching. There is also a lack of large code-switched speech corpora capturing all these styles making it difficult to build code-switched speech recognition systems. We hypothesize that it may be useful for an ASR system to be able to first detect the switching style of a particular utterance from acoustics, and then use specialized language models or other adaptation techniques for decoding the speech. In this paper, we look at the first problem of detecting code-switching style from acoustics. We classify code-switched Spanish-English and Hindi-English corpora using two metrics and show that features extracted from acoustics alone can distinguish between different kinds of code-switching in these language pairs.

2014

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Significance of Paralinguistic Cues in the Synthesis of Mathematical Equations
Venkatesh Potluri | SaiKrishna Rallabandi | Priyanka Srivastava | Kishore Prahallad
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing