Bio

Dr. G. Anushiya Rachel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shiv Nadar University, Chennai. She has about 4 years of teaching experience and 6 years of pure research experience. She completed her B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.E. in Applied Electronics. Subsequently she was a full-time research scholar and Project Officer at SSN College of Engineering. During this period, she was a part of projects funded by MeitY, Tamil Virtual Academy, and Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia. She worked extensively on text-to-speech synthesis and helped develop synthesizers for Indian languages and Malaysian Tamil, and has also worked on automatic speech recognition and emotional speech synthesis. Her PhD work focussed on estimating glottal closure instants from speech signals and she completed the same in the year 2019. She then went on to work as an Assistant Professor at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences and VIT Chennai, before joining SNU Chennai. She has over 20 publications in reputed conferences and journals, has worked on Samusng PRISM projects in the field of speech and language processing, and her team won first place at the Indian Language TTS Development Challenge 2020, organized by IIT Madras and CDAC Mumbai, for the development of a Tamil text-to-speech synthesis system.

Work Experience

• 2023 till date: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai
• 2022 - 2023: Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
• 2019 - 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore

Publications

• Anushiya Rachel, S. Sreenidhi, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Incorporation of Happiness in Neutral Speech by Modifying Time-Domain Parameters of Emotive-Keywords”, Circuit Systems and Signal Processing, Springer, Vol. 41, Issue 4, pp. 2061 - 2087, Apr. 2022.
• Anushiya Rachel, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Analysis of Algorithms to Estimate Glottal Closure Instants from Speech Signals”, International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer, Vol. 23, Issue 4, pp. 825 - 849, Sep. 2020.
• A. Mariya Celin, G. Anushiya Rachel, T. Nagarajan, P. Vijayalakshmi, “A Weighted Speaker-Specific Confusion Transducer-Based Augmentative and Alternative Speech Communication Aid for Dysarthric Speakers”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp. 187 - 197, Dec. 2018.
• Anushiya Rachel, N. Sripriya, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Significance of Differenced EGG Signal as a Spectrum in Phase Difference Computation for the Estimation of Glottal Closure Instants”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, Springer, Vol. 37, Issue 5, pp. 2074 - 2097, May 2018.
• Anushiya Rachel, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Estimation of Glottal Closure Instants from Degraded Speech using a Phase-Difference-Based Algorithm”, Computer Speech and Language, Elsevier, Vol. 46, pp. 136 - 153, Nov. 2017.
• Anushiya Rachel, V. Sherlin Solomi, K. Naveenkumar P. Vijayalakshmi and T. Nagarajan, “A small footprint context-independent HMM-based speech synthesizer for Tamil”, International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer, Vol. 18, No.3, pp. 405 - 418, Sep. 2015.