Research Projects

This project is aimed at developing and deploying speech interface for form-filling application (SiFA), which replaces the traditional keyboard for entering the responses. The proposed system interacts with the user in his/her mother tongue, in order to fill the responses. The SiFA system prompts the user with queries generated using a text-to-speech synthesis system, recognizes the user responses using an ASR system, and fills the form. We propose to develop modular framework for filling different fields in the forms, like name, address, date of birth etc., each of which may in turn involve several subfields, so that it can be easily deployed across the domains including, but not limited to, healthcare, education, governance, banking, etc. Since the proposed system is based purely on speech communication, it can help in taking the fruits of modern digitization techniques to the rural public, as well as the visually challenged population. The proposed system will be demonstrated in five different Indian languages, viz., Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Odia and Telugu, as proof of the concept, and can be extended to other languages as well.