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• @ IBM India Research Lab , New Delhi
  • Hindi and Indian English speech recognition (for desktop and telephony environments)
  • Indian English text-to-speech
  • Spoken Language Assessment

Journal Publications:

• Verma A. and Kumar A., “Voice fonts for individuality representation and transformation”, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 2, Issue 1, February 2005
• Verma A. and Kumar A., "Modification of harmonic peak-to-valley ratio for controlling roughness in voice conversion", Electronic Letters, Vol. 40, No. 25, December 2004.
• Verma A., Subramaniam L. V., Rajput N., Neti C., Faruquie T. A., "Animating expressive faces across languages", IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, pp. 791-800, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 2004.
• Kumar M., Rajput N. and Verma A., "A large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition for Hindi", IBM Journal of Research and Development, pp. 703-716, Vol. 48, No. 5/6, November 2004.
• Potamianos G., Net. C., Iyengar G., Senior A. W. and Verma A., “A cascade visual front end for speaker independent automatic speechreading”, International Journal of Speech Technology, April, 2001
• Verma A. and Venkataram P., “Performance of centralized bandwidth reservation protocol in AVPNs”, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July, 1997

Conference Publications:

• Kartik Audhkhasi, Kundan Kandhway, Om D. Deshmukh, Ashish Verma, “Formant-based Technique for Automatic Filled-Pause Detection in Spontaneous Spoken English”, Proc. ICASSP 2009
• Om D. Deshmukh, Kundan Kandhway, Kartik Audhkhasi, Ashish Verma, “Automatic Evaluation of Spoken English Fluency”, Proc. ICASSP 2009
• Om Deshmukh and Ashish Verma, “Acoustic-Phonetic Approach for Automatic Evaluation of Spoken Grammar”, Proc. Interspeech 2008
• Om Dekshmukh, Sachindra Joshi and Ashish Verma, “Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation and Classification”, Proc. Interspeech 2008
• Abhishek Chandel, Abhinav Parate, Himanshu Pant, Maymon Madathingal, Nitendra Rajput, Shajith Ikbal, Om Deshmukh, Ashish Verma, “Spoken English Assessment for Call Center Agents”, ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan
• Abhinav Parate, Ashish Verma and Jayanta Basak, “Evaluation of Syllable Stress using Single Class Classifier”, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
• Samuel Thomas, Ashish Verma, “Language Identification of Person Names using CF-IOF based Weighting Function”, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
• Samuel Thomas, Nitendra Rajput, Ashish Verma, “SSML Extensions for Indian Languages”, W3C workshop on SSML, January 2007
• Audhkhasi K., Verma A., “Keyword Search using Modified Minimum Edit Distance Measure”, ICASSP, Honolulu, 2007
• Verma A., Lal K., Lo Y. Y., Basak J., “Word independent model for syllable stress evaluation”, ICASSP, pages: I-1237 - I-1240, Toulouse, 2006
• Kumar M., Kumar A., Verma A., “A recognition/synthesis paradigm and pitch asynchronous HNM based very low bit rate speech coder”, National Conference on Communication, New Delhi, 2006
• Verma A. and Kumar A., "Introducing roughness in voice conversion through jitter modeling and modification", International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, March, 2005.
• Kumar M., Rajput N., Verma A., “Hybrid baseform builder for phonetic languages”, International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Chennai, January 2005
• Verma A. and Kumar A., "Articulatory class based spectral envleope for voice fonts", International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2004.
• Kumar A. and Verma A., "Using phone and diphone based acoustic models for voice conversion: A step towrds creating voice fonts”, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, HongKong, April, 2003.
• Verma A., Rajput N. and Subramaniam L. V., "Using viseme based acoustic models for speech driven lip synthesis”, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, HongKong, April, 2003.
• Verma A. and Kumar A., "Modeling speaking rate for voice fonts", EUROSPEECH, Geneva, September, 2003.
• Faruquie T. A., Neti C., Rajput N., Subramaniam L. V. and Verma A., “Animating expressive faces to speak in Indian languages,” National Conference on Communication, Mumbai, January, 2002.
• Neti C., Rajput N. and Verma A., “A large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system for Hindi,” National Conference on Communication, Mumbai, January, 2002.
• Ghosh A., Sarkar A., Verma A., “ Using likelihood L-statistic to measure confidence in audio-visual speech recognition”, Multimedia Signal Processing, 2001, Cannes, France
• Iyengar G., Neti C., Verma A., “ Robust detection of visual ROI for visual speechreading”, Multimedia Signal Processing, 2001, Cannes, France.
• Decuetos P., Maison B., Neti C., Basu S. and Verma A., “Joint processing of audio and visual information for multimedia indexing and human-computer interaction”, RIAO, April 12-14 2000, Paris, France
• Faruquie T.,  Subramaniam L. V., Rajput N. and Verma A., “Translingual visual speech synthesis”, IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, July 2000
• Potamianos G., Verma A., Basu S. and Iyengar G., “A cascade image transform for speaker independent automatic speechreading”, IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, July 2000
• Mukerjee N., Rajput N., Verma A., “On deriving a phoneme model for a new language”,  International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing 2000
• Rajput N., Subramaniam L. V., Verma A., “Adapting phonetic decision trees between languages for continuous speech recognition”, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, 2000
• Basu S., Neti C.,  Rajput N. and Verma A., “On large vocabulary continuous speech audio-visual speech recognition”, IEEE conference on Multimedia & Signal Processing, Copenhagen,  September 1999
• Verma A., Faruquie T., Neti C. and Basu S., “Late integration in continuous audio-visual speech recognition”, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Keystone, December 1999
• Verma A. and Kulshreahtha A., “A new Approach to improve    performance of TCP in wireless networks”, IEEE International  Symposium on Wireless Communication, September 1998, New Delhi