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Priti Raychoudhury, PhD

Priti Raychoudhury, PhD

Graduate Research Assistant

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  • About me

    Research Linguist | Speech processing | PhD in Linguistics, IIT Guwahati | Published author | Gold medalist

  • Education

    • Kendriya Vidyalaya

      2003 - 2006
      SSC / 10th ; HSC / 12th Genaral ; Arts 1st Div

    • North-Eastern Hill University

      2009 - 2011
      Post graduation Linguistics 7.25 CGPA

      Activities and Societies: Workshop and Seminars attended: • National Workshop on Mother Tongues of North East India with special reference to Meghalaya. • Annamalai University National Seminar on Endangered Languages in India. Term Paper involved field work and computation of the syntactic structure of an Austro-Asiatic language for the dissertation: ‘Towards a Syntactic Parser of Pasadwar'.

    • Assam (Central) University

      2006 - 2009
      Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters 53.5

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

      2014 - 2022
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics

      Status: Awarded.Submitted thesis under the supervision of Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta.My work contributes to the understanding of the prosodic structure of a language that developed tone independently from its non-tonal language family. It primarily seeks to investigate the nature of phonological tone in Sylheti -an Indo-Aryan language (ISO 15924)- from a tonogenetic perspective based on empirical acoustic evidence. It explores the typological classification of Sylheti as a tonal language… Show more Status: Awarded.Submitted thesis under the supervision of Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta.My work contributes to the understanding of the prosodic structure of a language that developed tone independently from its non-tonal language family. It primarily seeks to investigate the nature of phonological tone in Sylheti -an Indo-Aryan language (ISO 15924)- from a tonogenetic perspective based on empirical acoustic evidence. It explores the typological classification of Sylheti as a tonal language by investigating the tonogenesis and tonal interaction at post lexical levels. Show less

  • Experience

    • Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

      Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
      Graduate Research Assistant

      Worked as a graduate research assistant under North Eastern Hill University in the elaborate linguistic documentation of 2 lesser known languages of North eastern India. The responsibilities involved elaborate field work on both the languages and analysing the data by implementing phonetic transcription, phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis.

    • Google

      Nov 2012 - Aug 2013
      Speech Data Evaluator

      Worked as a Linguist (Speech Data Evaluator) with special attention on Indian English and Hindi by implementing Phonetic transcription, Word Sense Disambiguation, and Annotations.

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

      Jan 2014 - Aug 2017
      Linguist (Junior Project Fellow)

      Principal Investigator- Prof. Shakuntala MahantaThe project aimed to address the digital preservation of twelve identified North east languages with the help of a consortium of several North eastern Universities - IIT Guwahati, Tezpur University, Tripura University, Mizoram University, Manipur University, and Nagaland University. The responsibilities involved analysing large scale speech data by implementing acoustic phonetic, experimental phonological, semantic, morphological and syntactic analysis for digital preservation of the language data. Show less

    • Sanas

      Feb 2023 - now

      - Leverage expertise in phonology and phonetic speech signals to evaluate key model issues.- Implement SOTA techniques from the academia and industry to internal use cases.- Integrating speech signals and linguistic signals to leverage automation and efficiency of absolute speech evaluation.- Conduct diverse evaluations and experiments to convey actionable insights to stakeholders.- Lead and collaborate on projects with fellow computational linguists, applied scientists and data linguists.- Research and hone on perceptual and objective properties of different dialects of English to establish analytical thresholds for the synthesized speech.- Lead and work on speech corpus creation. Show less - Linguistics subject matter expert- Performing acoustic phonetic, phonological, linguistic, and data analysis of speech.- Providing research and insights to enhance model performance.- Lead projects on Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of internal model issues, utilising a combination of objective and linguistic metrics to identify and address challenges.- Assume responsibility for cross-functional coordination, ensuring effective collaboration among diverse teams.- Train and mentor team members on linguistic tools and methodologies Show less

      • Computational Linguist

        Feb 2024 - now

      • Senior Linguist

        Feb 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • QIP-CEP WORKSHOP ON EXPERIMENTAL AND EMPIRICAL LINGUISTICS

      Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
      Jul 2015

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Priti Raychoudhury, PhD
      Gold Medal North Eastern Hill University Sep 2011 Awarded for securing 1st rank in the Master's program in Linguistics.