Hi Ecebloggers,

This time, I decided to write something about the current activities in my college, IIT Guwahati. After completing my internship at UNH , I always thought how I could promote the current research work at UNH and my pilot experiment work for obstacle testing during the internship period. Fortunately, the electronics department in our institute has initiated a lecture series on certain crucial areas of research in the electronics domain. This lecture series is being organized and managed by Cepstrum, the IIT Guwahati ECE society. I volunteered to contribute in this lecture series, the topic being “Speech Processing and In vehicle Interaction”. Quite Interestingly, much more students showed up for this lecture than was expected. I gradually commenced from defining speech synthesis , speech recognition etc. and later slowly paced up the proceedings covering the in - vehicle speech user interface. For elucidating an “in vehicle speech user interface” in a limited time, nothing could serve better than the demo video available for the Project54 speech user interface on the Catlab website. I then moved on to expand some details about my work at UNH and then finally covered the future prospects and current research at the Microsoft Research Lab, US. I used the Microsoft Research Driving simulator video to show the future directions in this field. Since some of the listeners were first year and second year undergraduates, I had to restrict myself to the basics of speech without going into the technical details. Here is a picture from the lecture and the rest can be found on this website.

Now, something about the listeners’ responses..Some of the second year undergraduates were interested to know about certain specific fields like keyword spotting and speech recognition. Since my final year B.Tech project at IIT Guwahati is on “Speech based Emotion recognition” , I was able to suggest some parameters imperative for emotion and speech recognition but again, without going into the finer technical details. Moving on, some juniors were interested to know how the lane variance and the steering wheel angle variance measures could be used to actually improve the driving performance. To vividly reply that query, I mentioned about the current research work being done in Project54 Lab to improve the driver performance. I remembered reading Oszkar’s paper on the wireless Push to Talk Glove and thus quoted it as an example, elaborating how it is better than the fixed PTT switch and helps to improve the driving performance. Finally, I concluded the lecture providing the website address for eceblogger as a resource for information about the latest proceedings in the Project 54 Lab. Thus to summarize , I had a wonderful time and I hope I could have incited some enthusiasm in my junior undergraduates.

Puneet Lakhanpal

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