April 30, 2020
Dr. B. Ramani – Associate Professor
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Dr. B. Ramani, obtained her B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, and M.E. in Optical Communication from Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering, Karaikudi. She has obtained her doctoral degree for her work on “A Multilingual to Polyglot Speech Synthesizer for Indian Languages using Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion” from Anna University, Chennai. She currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of ECE, SSNCE. Prior to joining SSN, she was with Rajalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai for two and a half years since June 2005.
Her research interest includes work on Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion, Speech Recognition, Speaker and Language Recognition. To her credit, she has published several research articles in speech technology in leading Conferences and Journals.
Selected Publications
- Vijayalakshmi,B. Ramani, M. P. Actlin Jeeva, T. Nagarajan, “A Multilingual to Polyglot Speech Synthesizer for Indian Languages using a Voice-Converted Polyglot Speech Corpus”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer), vol.37 (5), pp.2142-2163, May 2018. (IF: 1.694)
- Azhaguvarthani, B. Ramani, “Handwritten text recognition system for English”, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 117, no. 16, pp. 257–263, 2017. Special Issue. (Scopus-indexed, SJR: 0.253, SNIP: 0.388)
- Ramani, M. P. Actlin Jeeva, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “A Multi-Level GMM-Based Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion using Language Specific Mixture Weights for Polyglot Synthesis”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer), vol. 35 (4), pp. 1283-1311, Apr 2016. (IF: 1.118)
- Ramani B, Actlin Jeeva M P, Vijayalakshmi P, Nagarajan T, “Cross-lingual voice-conversion based polyglot speech synthesizer for Indian languages” in Interspeech, ISCA, Singapore, 2014, pp. 775-779.http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2014/i14_0775.html
- Anushiya Rachel Gladston, S. Lilly Christina, V. Sherlin Solomi, Ramani B, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Development and Analysis of Various Phone-Sized Unit-Based Speech Synthesizers”, in the Proc. of International Oriental COCOSDA Conference, Gurgaon India 25-27, November 2013, pp.1-5.
- Sherlin Solomi, S. Lilly Christina, Anushiya Rachel Gladston, Ramani B, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Analysis on Acoustic Similarities between Tamil and English Phonemes using Product of Likelihood-Gaussians for an HMM-Based Mixed-Language Synthesizer”, in the Proc. of International Oriental COCOSDA Conference, Gurgaon India 25-27, November 2013, pp. 1-5.
- Ramani B, Actlin Jeeva M P, Vijayalakshmi P, Nagarajan T, “Voice conversion-based Multilingual to Polyglot speech synthesizer for Indian Languages” in the Proc. of IEEE TENCON 2013, Xi’an, China, 22-25, October 2013, pp. 1-4.
- B Ramani, S Lilly Christina, G Anushiya Rachel, V Sherlin Solomi, Mahesk Kumar Nandwana, Anusha Prakash, Aswin Shanmugam S, Raghava Krishnan, SP Kishore, K Samudravijaya, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan, and Hema A Murthy, “A Common Attribute based Unified HTS framework for Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages,” in ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Barcelona, Spain, 2013, pp. 291 – 296.
- P. Actlin Jeeva, B. Ramani, P. Vijayalakshmi, “Performance Evaluation and Comparison of Multilingual Speech Synthesizers for Indian Languages” in the Proc. of 3rdInternational Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (ICRTIT 2013) MIT Campus, Anna University, 25-27 July 2013, pp.590-595.
- Ramani B, V Sherlin Solomi, Anushiya Rachel G, S.Lilly Christina, P Vijayalakshmi, Nagarajan T, Hema A Murthy, “Development and Evaluation of Unit Selection and HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Systems for Tamil” in the Proc. of National Conference on Communications (NCC 2013) IIT, Delhi 15-17 February 2013, pp.1-5. doi: 10.1109/NCC.2013.6487984
Google scholar Citation
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=F-dmoKgAAAAJ&hl=en