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The Institute is very actively engaged in Research and development in Computer Science and Electronics and Communication areas. It has established a research group who is very actively working in the areas of Natural language and speech processing related to Indian spoken languages under the guidance of Dr. S. S. Agrawal, Executive Director KIIT and an eminent Scientist. Projects related to development of annotated text and speech databases for Hindi and Indian Spoken English from a large population of speakers are being conducted. The work is going on in collaboration with Indian and Foreign Laboratories. Advance research has been also taken up in Automatic Speech Recognition, Text to Speech Synthesis, Language and Speaker Identification Techniques for Indian Languages. Dr. S. S. Agrawal is also engaged in an international collaborated project called "A- Star" which is coordinated by ATR/NICT, Japan. About 10 different Asian countries including India are participating in this programme
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