Biography
I am Sai Sirisha Rallabandi, a Ph.D. student working with Professor Sebastian Möller at Technische Universität Berlin. Prior to this I did my Masters by Research at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), India. My research interests are: Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion and Cross-Lingual tasks. During my Ph.D. I will be working on "Social perceptions of Synthetic speakers". Here, I will mainly focus on understanding the speech features contributing to personality of a person. Furthermore, I will be modeling the speech features or the synthesis procedure itself for rendering more appealing and confident synthetic voices.
Research Activites
1) Research Intern at National University of Singapore
http://ece.nus.edu.sg/hlt/alumni/
2) Visiting Research Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University
3) Research Assistant at Speech Processing Laboratory
Here is the Cover Letter I wrote along with my P.hD. application
Contact details:
Email: s.rallabandi@tu-berlin.de
Phone number: 4915163100774