Priyankoo Sarmah 

Priyankoo Sarmah 

Professor & Head 
Education: PhD
Linguistics
priyankoo@iitg.ac.in
+91 361 2582574
Room No: 3
Personal Website

Research Interests: Phonetics and phonology of vowels and tones, Tibeto-Burman languages, language technology development, speech perception, speech recognition. Check

Journal Publications


1. Parismita Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna, "Cross-linguistic rhythm analysis of Mising and Assamese", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing [2024], https://doi.org/10.1145/3694785

2. Deepen Naorem, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Embarking on a Preliminary Exploration: Cross-Lingual Embedding in English-Manipuri", International Journal of Asian Language Processing, vol.34, Issue no.2 [2024], https://doi.org/10.1142/S2717554524500073

3. Priyankoo Sarmah, Wendy Lalhminghlui, "Acoustic Characteristics of Voiced and Voiceless Nasals in Mizo", Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, vol.4, pp.91-106 [2024], 10.15026/0002000629

4. Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Acoustics of Voiceless Nasals in Angami", Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (“ILCAA”,“AA-ken”) is an affiliate of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), vol.4, pp.129-144 [2024], https://doi.org/10.15026/0002000631

5. Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Voice onset time in Angami", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, vol.47, Issue no.1, pp.32-56 [2024], https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.00016.ter

6. Deepen Naorem, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Improving linear orthogonal mapping based cross-lingual representation using ridge regression and graph centrality", Computer Speech & Language, vol.87, pp.1-25 [2024], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2024.101640

7. Priyankoo Sarmah, Caroline R Wiltshire, "Acoustic properties of the monophthongs of Assamese Indian English speakers", World Englishes, vol.43, Issue no.10, pp.161-181 [2024], https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12637

8. Hemanta Baruah, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Transliteration Characteristics in Romanized Assamese Language Social Media Text and Machine Transliteration", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, vol.23, Issue no.2, pp.1-36 [2024], https://doi.org/10.1145/3639565

9. Dhrubajyoti Pathak, Sukumar Nandi, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Part-of-speech tagger for Assamese using Ensembling approach", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, vol.22, Issue no.10, pp.1-11 [2023], https://doi.org/10.1145/3617653

10. Moakala Tzudir, Shikha Baghel, Priyankoo Sarmah, SR Mahadeva Prasanna, "Under-resourced dialect identification in Ao using source information", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol.152, Issue no.3, pp.1755-1766 [2022], https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014176

11. Dhrubajyoti Pathak, Sukumar Nandi, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Reduplication in Assamese: Identification and Modeling", Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, vol.21, Issue no.5, pp.1-18 [2022], https://doi.org/10.1145/3510419

12. Bornali Phukon, Akash Anil, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Synonymy Expansion Using Link Prediction Methods: A Case Study of Assamese WordNet", Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, ACM Journals, vol.21, Issue no.1, pp.1-21 [2021], doi.org/10.1145/3467966

13. Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, "Analysis and modeling of dialect information in Ao, a low resource language", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, AIP Publishing LLC, vol.149, Issue no.5, pp.2976-2987 [2021], 10.1121/10.0004822

14. Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, Gregory D. S. Anderson, "Acoustic phonetic study of the Sora vowel system", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, AIP Publishing LLC, vol.147, Issue no.4, pp.3000-3011, ISBN.0001-4966 [2020], 10.1121/10.0001011

15. Saswati Rabha, Priyankoo Sarmah, and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, "Aspiration in fricative and nasal consonants: Properties and detection", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, AIP Publishing LLC, vol.146, Issue no.1, pp.614-625, ISBN.0001-4966 [2019], https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5116566

16. Rajlakshmi Saikia, Sanasam Ranbir Singh and Priyankoo Sarmah, "Effectiveness of Using Language Independent Transcribers for Spoken Language Identification for Different Indian Languages", International Journal of Asian Language Processing, COLIPS, vol.28, Issue no.2, pp.95-106, ISBN.0219-5968 [2018]

17. Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho and Priyankoo Sarmah, "Vowels and tones in Poula", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, John Benjamins Publishing Company, vol.41, Issue no.1, pp.22-44, ISBN.0731-3500 [2018], 10.1075/ltba.16022.lem

18. Biswajit Dev Sarma, SR Mahadeva Prasanna, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Consonant-vowel unit recognition using dominant aperiodic and transition region detection", Speech Communication., Elsevier, vol.92, Issue no.1, pp.77-89, ISBN.0167-6393 [2017], 10.1016/j.specom.2017.06.003

19. Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Acoustic analysis of vowels in Assam Sora", North East Indian Linguistics, Australian National University, vol.7, Issue no.NA, pp.69-88, ISBN.9.78E+12 [2015]

20. Priyankoo Sarmah, Leena Dihingia, Dimple Choudhury, "An acoustic study of Bodo vowels", Himalayan Linguistics, University of California, vol.14, Issue no.1, pp.20-33 [2015]

21. Priyankoo Sarmah, Caroline R. Wiltshire, Seung-Ah Hong, "Tiwa tones in monosyllables", North East Indian Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, vol.5, Issue no.NA, pp.249-270, ISBN.9.79E+12 [2013]

22. Priyankoo Sarmah, Caroline R Wiltshire, "An acoustic study of Dimasa tones", North East Indian Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, vol.2, pp.25-44, ISBN.9.79E+12 [2010]

23. Priyankoo Sarmah, Divya Verma Gogoi, Caroline R Wiltshire, "Thai English: rhythm and vowels", English World-Wide, John Benjamins Publishing Company, vol.30, Issue no.2, pp.196-217, ISBN.1569-9730 [2009], 10.1075/eww.30.2.05sar

Conference Proceedings


1. Joyshree Chakraborty, Leena Dihingia, Priyankoo Sarmah, Rohit Sinha, "On Comparing Time-and Frequency-Domain Rhythm Measures in Classifying Assamese Dialects", Interspeech 2024, ISCA, pp.2060-2064 [2024], https://10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2513

2. Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Voiced and voiceless laterals in Angami", Interspeech 2024, International Speech Communication Association, pp.3704-3708 [2024], http://10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2361

3. Joyshree Chakraborty, Rohit Sinha, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Effects of Rate of Articulation in Rhythm Formant Analysis-based Dialect Classification", International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), IEEE, pp.422-427 [2024], 10.1109/IALP63756.2024.10661171

4. Hemanta Baruah, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "AssameseBackTranslit: Back Transliteration of Romanized Assamese Social Media Text", Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), ACL Anthology, pp.1627-1637 [2024], https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.143

5. Dhrubajyoti Pathak, Sukumar Nandi, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Evaluating Performance of Pre-trained Word Embeddings on Assamese, a Low-resource Language", Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), ACL Anthology, pp.6418-6425 [2024], https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.568.pdf

6. Joyshree Chakraborty, Leena Dihingia, Priyankoo Sarmah, Rohit Sinha, "Effect of Sociolinguistic Variations on Rate and Rhythm of Hindi L2 Speech", Speech Prosody, ISCA, pp.16-20 [2024], https://10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-4

7. Viyazonuo Terhiija, Zhonei I Gwirie, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Tonal coarticulation in Angami level tones", The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation, International Speech Communication Association, vol.2, pp.44-48 [2023], https://www.doi.org/10.21437/TAI.2023-10

8. Lipsa Routray, Abhishek Shrivastava, Priyankoo Sarmah, "A survey on Indian user's purchasing intention of electric vehicle and the factors influencing their decision", 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), IEEE [2023], https://doi.org/10.1109/SEFET57834.2023.10245992

9. Lipsa Routray, Abhishek Shrivastava, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Enhancing E-Rickshaw Driving Experiences: Insights from User-Centric EV Dashboards in India", International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, Springer Nature Switzerland [2023], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53827-8_31

10. Deepen Naorem, Okram Jimmy Singh, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "English-Manipuri Cross-Lingual Embedding: A Preliminary Study", 2023 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), IEEE, pp.74-79 [2023], 10.1109/IALP61005.2023.10337115

11. Hemanta Baruah, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Assamese Back Transliteration-An Empirical Study Over Canonical and Non-canonical Datasets", Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, ACM, pp.801-808 [2023], https://aclanthology.org/2023.paclic-1.80.pdf

12. Telem Joyson Singh, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Subwords to Word Back Composition for Morphologically Rich Languages in Neural Machine Translation", Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC, pp.1-10 [2023], https://aclanthology.org/2023.paclic-1.69.pdf

13. Priyankoo Sarmah, Wendy Lalhminghlui & Neeraj Kumar Sharma, "Sounds of ence: Acoustics of Inhalation in Read Speech", 25th International Conference, SPECOM 2023, Springer Cham [2023], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48309-7

14. Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna, "Prosodic Information in Dialect Identification of a Tonal Language: The case of Ao", Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, International Speech Communication Association, pp.2238-2242 [2022], https://10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10779

15. Bornali Phukon, Anasua Mitra, Ranbir Sanasam, Priyankoo Sarmah, "TEAM: A multitask learning-based Taxonomy Expansion approach for Attach and Merge", Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.366-378 [2022], https://10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.28

16. Seema Lokhandwala, Priyankoo Sarmah, Rohit Sinha, "Classifying Mahout and Social Interactions of Asian Elephants Based on Trumpet Calls", International Conference on Speech and Computer: SPECOM 2022, Springer International Publishing, vol.13721, pp.426-437 [2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_37

17. Parismita Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna, "Automatic Rhythm and Speech Rate Analysis of Mising Spontaneous Speech", International Conference on Speech and Computer: SPECOM 2022, Springer International Publishing, vol.13721, pp.201-213 [2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_18

18. Joyshree Chakraborty, Rohit Sinha, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Influence of Accented Speech in Automatic Speech Recognition: A Case Study on Assamese L1 Speakers Speaking Code Switched Hindi-English", International Conference on Speech and Computer: SPECOM 2022, Springer International Publishing, vol.13721, pp.87-98 [2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_9

19. Moakala Tzudir, Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee, Priyankoo Sarmah, S. R. M. Prasanna, "Low-Resource Dialect Identification in Ao Using Noise Robust Mean Hilbert Envelope Coefficients", 2022 National Conference on Communications (NCC), IEEE, pp.256-261 [2022], https://10.1109/NCC55593.2022.9806808

20. Moakala Tzudir, Shikha Baghel, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna, "Analyzing RMFCC Feature for Dialect Identification in Ao, an Under-Resourced Language", 2022 National Conference on Communications (NCC), IEEE, pp.308-313 [2022], https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC55593.2022.9806770

21. Talem Joyson Singh, Sansam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "English-Manipuri Machine Translation: An empirical study of different Supervised and Unsupervised Methods", International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), IEEE Explore, pp.142-147 [2021], 10.1109/IALP54817.2021.9675167

22. Susmita Bhattacharjee, Joyshree Chakraborty, Sanskar Agarwal, Ayul Jain, Priyankoo Sarmah, Rohit Sinha, "IITG-INDIGO Submissions for Interspeech-2021 Multilingual and Code-Switching ASR Challenges for Low Resource Indian Languages", 2021 IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (INDICON), IEEE Explore, pp.1-4 [2021], 10.1109/INDICON52576.2021.9691549

23. Caroline R Wiltshire, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Voicing contrasts in the stops of Indian English produced by Assamese speakers", Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, vol.42, pp.1-11 [2021], https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001389

24. Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Aspiration in voiceless nasals in Angami", Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, vol.42, pp.1-13 [2021], https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001403

25. Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Characterizing Voiced and Voiceless Nasals in Mizo", Proceedings of Interspeech, ISCA, pp.426-430 [2021], https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2104

26. Moakala Tzudir, Shikha Baghel, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna, "Excitation Source Feature Based Dialect Identification in Ao—A Low Resource Language", Interspeech 2021, ISCA, vol.1, pp.1524-1528 [2021], 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1672

27. Parismita Gogoi, Abhishek Dey, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah, S. R. M. Prasanna, "Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference", Lexical Tone Recognition in Mizo using Acoustic-Prosodic Features, European Language Resources Association, pp.6458-6462, ISBN.2522-2686 [2020]

28. Parismita Gogoi, Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna, "Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020", Automatic Tone Recognition of Ao Language, ISCA, pp.1005-1008 [2020], 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-205

29. Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020", Rhythm in Sora Trilingual Readers, ISCA, pp.581-585 [2020], 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-119

30. Leena Dihingia, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020", Rhythm and Speaking Rate in Assamese Varieties, ISCA, pp.561-564 [2020], 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-115

31. Rupam Das, Abhishek Dey, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah, Samudra Vijaya, Rohit Sinha, "Mizo Spoken Query System Enhanced with Prosodic Information", 23rd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, IEEE [2020], https://doi.org/10.1109/O-COCOSDA50338.2020.9295007

32. Joyshree Chakraborty, Priyankoo Sarmah, Samudra Vijaya, "Spoken Language Identification of Four Tibeto-Burman languages", 23rd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, IEEE [2020], https://doi.org/10.1109/O-COCOSDA50338.2020.9295008

33. Wendy Lalhminghlui, Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Interspeech 2019", Vowel-Tone Interaction in Two Tibeto-Burman Languages, ISCA, vol.1, Issue no.1, pp.3970-3974 [2019], 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2808

34. Saswati Rabha, Priyankoo Sarmah, and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, "TENCON 2019 - 2019 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON)", Acoustic Correlates of Aspiration in Fricatives and Nasals, IEEE, vol.1, Issue no.1, pp.986-990 [2019], 10.1109/TENCON.2019.8929609

35. Abhash Deka,Priyankoo Sarmah,Samudravijaya K,S R M Prasanna, "NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (NCC) 2019", Development of Assamese Text-to-speech System using Deep Neural Network, IEEE, vol. , Issue no. , pp.254-258 [2019]

36. Vignesh Kothapalli , Biswajit Dev Sarma, Abhishek Dey, Parismita Gogoi, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, S. R. Nirmala and Rohit Sinha, "IEEE Indicon", Robust Recognition of Tone Specified Mizo Digits Using CNN-LSTM and Nonlinear Spectral Resolution, IEEE, vol.1, Issue no.2, pp. - [2018]

37. Chakraborty, K., Devi, S. S., Devnath, S., Prasanna, S. M., & Sarmah, P., "Interspeech 2018", Glotto Vibrato Graph: A Device and Method for Recording, Analysis and Visualization of Glottal Activity. , ISCA, vol. , Issue no. , pp.2392-2393 [2018]

38. Gogoi, P., Kalita, S., Gogoi, P., Wayland, R., Sarmah, P., Prasanna, S.R.M, "Proc. Interspeech 2018", Analysis of Breathiness in Contextual Vowel of Voiceless Nasals in Mizo, ISCA, vol. , Issue no. , pp.237-241 [2018], 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1899

39. Abhishek Dey, Biswajit Dev Sarma, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Lalnunsiami Ngente, Parismita Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Rohit Sinha, Nirmala S.R., "Proc. Interspeech 2018", Robust Mizo Continuous Speech Recognition, ISCA, vol. , Issue no. , pp.1036-1040 [2018], 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2125

40. Abhishek Dey, Abhash Deka, Siddika Imani, Barsha Deka, Rohit Sinha, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Priyankoo Sarmah, K Samudravijaya, Nirmala S.R., "Proc. Interspeech 2018", AGROASSAM: A Web Based Assamese Speech Recognition Application for Retrieving Agricultural Commodity Price and Weather Information, ISCA, vol. , Issue no. , pp.3214-3215 [2018]

41. Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, "Proc. The 6th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages", Dialect Identification Using Tonal and Spectral Features in Two Dialects of Ao, ISCA, vol.6, Issue no.29, pp.137-141 [2018], 10.21437/SLTU.2018-29

42. Kishalay Chakraborty, Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Proc. The 6th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages", Building an Automatic Speech Recognition System in Sora Language Using Data Collected for Acoustic Phonetic Studies, ISCA, vol.6, Issue no.49, pp.234-237 [2018], 10.21437/SLTU.2018-49

43. Biswajit Dev Sarma, Abhishek Dey, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Parismita Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, "Proc. 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018", Robust Mizo digit recognition using data augmentation and tonal information, ISCA, vol.1, Issue no.2, pp.621-625, ISBN.2333-2042 [2018], 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-126

44. Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Proc. TAL2018, Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages", Production and Perception of Rising Tone Sandhi in Mizo, ISCA, vol.1, Issue no.1, pp.114-118 [2018], 10.21437/TAL.2018-23

45. Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah, and K Samudrajaya, "Proc. Oriental COCOSDA 2018", Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Two Southern Angami Dialects, NAIST, Japan, vol.1, Issue no.2, pp. - [2018]

46. Barsha Deka, Joyshree Chakraborty, Abhishek Dey, Shikhamoni Nath , Priyankoo Sarmah, S.R. Nirmala, and Samudra Vijaya, "Proc. Oriental COCOSDA 2018", Speech Corpora of Under-resourced Languages of North-East India, NAIST, Japan, vol.1, Issue no.2, pp. - [2018]

47. Dey, Abhishek, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah, K. Samudravijaya, SR Mahadeva Prasanna, Rohit Sinha, S. R. Nirmala, "Indicon 2017", Mizo Phone Recognition System, IEEE, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.NA-NA [2017], 10.1109/INDICON.2017.8487726

48. Rajlakshmi Saikia, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah, "21st International Conference on Asian Language Processing", Effect of Language Independent Transcribers on Spoken Language Identification for Different Indian Languages, IEEE, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.214-217, ISBN.978-1-5386-1981-0 [2017], 10.1109/IALP.2017.8300582

49. Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, "Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE", Tonal feature based dialect discrimination in two dialects in Ao, IEEE, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.NA-NA, ISBN.2159-3450 [2017], 10.1109/TENCON.2017.8228149

50. Saswati Rabha, Phunuma Mazumdar, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, "Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE", Detection of aspiration in rabha alveolar fricatives using zero frequency filtering V, IEEE, vol.5, Issue no.NA, pp.NA-NA, ISBN.2159-3450 [2017], 10.1109/TENCON.2017.8228278

51. Wendy Lalhminghlui, Rupam Das, Priyankoo Sarmah, Samudra Vijaya, "2017 Conference of The Oriental Chapter of International Committee for Coordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Technique (O-COCOSDA)", A Mizo Speech Database for Automatic Speech Recognition, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, vol. , Issue no. , pp.302-306, ISBN.978-1-5386-3333-5 [2017]

52. Sishir Kalita, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Samarendra Dandapat, "Interspeech 2017", Acoustic Characterization of Word-final Glottal Stops in Mizo and Assam Sora, ISCA, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.1039-1043, ISBN.1990-9772 [2017]

53. Indranil Dutta, Irfan S, Pamir Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Interspeech 2017", Nature of Contrast and Coarticulation: Evidence from Mizo Tones and Assamese Vowel Harmony, ISCA, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.224-228, ISBN.1990-9772 [2017], http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1304

54. Deepshikha Mahanta, Bidisha Sharma, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, " Region 10 Conference (TENCON), 2016 IEEE", Text to speech synthesis system in Indian English, IEEE, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.2614-2618, ISBN.2159-3450 [2016]

55. Priyankoo Sarmah, Biswajit Dev Sarma, Nagaraj Adiga, Pamir Gogoi, and S. R. M. Prasanna, "Region 10 Conference (TENCON)", Dual channel signal analysis of oral and nasal consonants, IEEE, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.988-992, ISBN.2159-3450 [2016], 10.1109/TENCON.2016.7848153

56. Biswajit Dev Sarma, Priyankoo Sarmah, Wendy Lalhminghlui, SR Mahadeva Prasanna, "Interspeech 2015", Detection of Mizo Tones, ISCA, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.1049-1053, ISBN.1990-9770 [2015]

Book Chapter


1. Priyankoo Sarmah, Leena Dihingia, "Data Engineering for Smart Systems" , Assamese Dialect Identification From Vowel Acoustics , Springer, Singapore , vol.238 , pp.313 [2022] 10.1007/978-981-16-2641-8_30

2. Gogoi Parismita, Kalita Sishir, Lalhminghlui Wendy, Sarmah Priyankoo, Prasanna S.R.M, "Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series: Speech and Computer" , Learning Mizo Tones from F0 Contours Using 1D-CNN , Springer, Cham , vol.12997 , pp.214 [2021] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87802-3_20

3. Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, "Advances in Munda Linguistics" , Phonetic Comparison of Orissa Sora and Assam Sora , [2021]

4. Bhriguraj Borah, Dhrubajyoti Pathak, Priyankoo Sarmah, Bidisha Som, Sukumar Nandi, "Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics" , Survey of Textbased Chatbot in Perspective of Recent Technologies , Springer , vol.1031 ISBN.978-981-13-8581-0, pp.84-96, [2019] 10.1007/978-981-13-8581-0_7

Others


1. Priyankoo Sarmah, "Indian Languages and Language Technology", Seminar, vol.742, pp.62-66 [2021]

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Speech technology for North East Indian Languages
Funding Agency : MeITy
Principal Investigator: Rohit Sinha
Co-investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Duration/Starting Year: 2022-04-01 to 2025-03-31
Status: Ongoing

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Determining normative nasalance and acoustic characteristics in low-resourced North-Eastern languages with applications to language technology and speech therapy
Funding Agency : SERB
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator: Rohit Sinha, Neeraj Sharma
Duration/Starting Year: 2024-07-18 to 2026-07-18
Status: Ongoing

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A Broad Sociolinguistic Study of Assamese Vowels
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-02-2014 to 31-07-2016
Status: Completed

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Acoustic and Tonal Features based Analysis of Mizo
Funding Agency : DeITy
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator: P K Das
Duration/Starting Year: 21-03-2013 to 21-08-2017
Status: Completed

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Sociolinguistic Study of Phonetic Variations among the Clans and Khels of Two Southern Angami Villages
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-06-2017 to 31-12-2018
Status: Completed

6

Development of Speech Interface for Form-filling application (SiFA) in Five Indian languages
Funding Agency : MeITy & MHRD
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator: Abhishek Shrivastava, S R M Prasanna
Duration/Starting Year: 2017-08-21 to 2020-12-30
Status: Completed

7

Vowels, Tones and Rhythm in Rabha
Funding Agency : IITG Startup Grant
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-01-2012 to 01-01-2014
Status: Completed

8

Local Language Interface and Pronunciation Dictionary for Hindi and English (LLIPD) System
Funding Agency : Speechwarenet Pvt Ltd
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2015-03-12 to 2015-09-01
Status: Completed

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Sl.No Name Year
Sl.No Program Name Email Year Thesis/Project Title Affiliation
1 Ph.D. Moakala Tzudir Automatic Dialect Identification in Ao, a Low Resource Language Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
2 Ph.D. Saswati Rabha Analysis and Automatic Detection of Aspirated Fricative and Aspirated Nasals Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Dept. of EEE

Awards and Achievements


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Patents


Sl.No Name of Faculty and co-researcher Title Application No Date of Award Year Status
1 Priyankoo Sarmah, S R M Prasanna, Kishalay Chakraborty, Senjam Shantirani Device for Recording, Analysis and Visualization of Glottal Vibration and the Method Thereof E-2/144/2018-KOL 2018-03-23 2018 Applied

Attended


Title: Voiced and voiceless laterals in Angami

Name of Conference: Interspeech 2024

ISCA, Kos, Greece Aug 31, 2024 - Sep 5, 2024 No.of Partcipants: 2000 International

Invited


Title: Symposium on Teaching Phonetics

Name of Invited Lecture: Tone, Intonation and Speech Analysis

Central University of Kerala, Kasargod Mar 19, 2019 - Mar 19, 2019 National
Title: Lecture topic

Name of Invited Lecture: Lecture name

Instituye, Place International

Name of Invited Lecture: Tone in Northeast Indian Languages

Rayburn College, Online Nov 27, 2021 - Nov 27, 2021 National

Name of Invited Lecture: Tonal Acoustics and beyond: the case of Mizo

Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India, Online Jan 16, 2021 - Jan 16, 2021 National
Title: Speech Rhythm in Three North East Indian Languages

Name of Invited Lecture: International Conference cum Workshop on Rhythm in Speech and Music from Neuro-Cognitive Perspective

Jadavpur University, Kolkata Jan 16, 2020 - Jan 18, 2020 International
Title: Tone, Intonation and Speech Analysis

Name of Invited Lecture: Symposium on Teaching Phonetics

Central University of Kerala, Kasargod Mar 19, 2019 - Mar 19, 2019 National
Title: Vowel variation in a few languages of North East India

Name of Invited Lecture: Workshop on Language Variation in North East India

International Christian University, Tokyo Dec 11, 2017 - Dec 11, 2017 International
Title: A long introduction to speech sounds

Name of Invited Lecture: Winter school of automatic speech recognition

CLST, IITG, Guwahati May 16, 2017 - May 28, 2017 National
Title: Speech beyond "features"

Name of Invited Lecture: Thursday seminar series

IIT Dharwad, Dharwad Nov 17, 2017 - Nov 17, 2017 National
Title: Tibeto-Burman languages, Tones, Technology

Name of Invited Lecture:

Tripura University, Agartala Sep 5, 2017 - Sep 6, 2017 National
Title: Quantitative Analysis of Tones

Name of Invited Lecture: 7 - day Workshop on Tone in North - East Languages (with special reference to Naga Languag

Centre for Naga Tribal Language Studies (CNTLS), Nagaland University, Kohima Sep 8, 2017 - Sep 15, 2017 National
Title: Language and Sounds

Name of Invited Lecture:

Digboi College, Digboi Apr 15, 2017 - Apr 15, 2017 National
Title: Speech analysis with PRAAT

Name of Invited Lecture: Documentation and Description of Tribal and Endangered Languages of North East India

NEHU Shillong, Shillong Aug 5, 2017 - Sep 11, 2017 National
Title: Acoustics of segments, vowels and phonation

Name of Invited Lecture: Three-day intensive workshop on Acoustic Phonetics

Delhi University, New Delhi Mar 2, 2017 - Mar 4, 2017 National
Title: Phonetic Exploration of North-Eastern Languages

Name of Invited Lecture: Speech Technology Solutions for North Eastern states of India (STeSNE)

CDAC Kolkata, Silchar Feb 24, 2017 - Feb 25, 2017 National
Title: Tone Languages and their Features

Name of Invited Lecture: Speech Recognition and Tonal Feature Analysis

Chitkara University, Chandigarh Jun 30, 2017 - Jul 1, 2017 National

Attended


Title: Acoustics Phonetics for Indian Languages

Name of Workshop: Acoustics Phonetics for Indian Languages

Mumbai University, Mumbai Feb 25, 2020 - Mar 1, 2020 National

Invited


Name of Workshop: Excelling in Project and Article Writing: Key Skills for Professional Achievement

Girijananda Choudhury University, Guwahati Jul 24, 2024 No.of Partcipants: 100 National