PROJECTS
- Malayalam Speech to Text system using Kaldi and Vosk.
- FST based Malayalam grapheme to phoneme converter
- Opentype engineering and maintenance of Malayalam fonts by Swathanthra Malyalam Computing
PUBLICATIONS
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K. Manohar, A. R. Jayan and R. Rajan, “Mlphon: A Multifunctional Grapheme-Phoneme Conversion Tool Using Finite State Transducers,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 97555-97575, 2022, DOI.
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Kavya Manohar, A. R. Jayan, Rajeev Rajan (2020), Quantitative Analysis of the Morphological Complexity of Malayalam Language. In: Sojka P., Kopeček I., Pala K., Horák A. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12284. Springer, Cham. DOI
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Kavya Manohar & Santhosh Thottingal (2019), Malayalam Orthographic Reforms. Impact on Language and Popular Culture, in Proceedings of Graphemics in the 21st Century, Brest 2018 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Brest: Fluxus Editions, 329–351. DOI
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K. Manohar and B. Premanand, “Comparative study on vector quantization codebook generation algorithms for wideband speech coding,” 2012 International Conference on Green Technologies (ICGT), Trivandrum, 2012, pp. 082-088. DOI
TALKS
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Invited talk on ‘Does your computer understand spoken Malayalam? (കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ മലയാളം കേൾക്കുമ്പോൾ)’ as part of the Language Computing webinar series organized by Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad on October 14, 2022.
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Invited talk on ‘Contributing to Free and Open Source Software’ at the the init.d workshop organized by the FOSS cell, Model Engineering College Thrikkakkara, Ernakulam on 7th August 2021.
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Invited talk: ‘Indic Scripts, Unicode and a Brief Introduction to Natural Language Processing’ as a part of National webinar series organized by the Department of Computer Science at Sree Sankara Vidyapeetom College, Eranakulam on October 20, 2020.
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Talk on ‘The Digital Representation of Malayalam (കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിലെ എഴുത്തും വായനയും)’ at the Malayalam Computing Workshop organized by the Malayalam Department of the University of Kerala, on December 11, 2019.
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Grafematik, 2018, Brest, France. Presented a paper on the impacts of Malayalam orthographic reforms. Talk Video.
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Typoday 2018, Mumbai. Presented a paper with Santhosh Thottingal on the design principles of Manjari typeface titled: ‘Spiral splines in Typeface Design: A case study of Manjari Malayalam typeface’. Talk Video is available here.
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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing 12th Anniversary Celebrations, Thrissur, 2013 - Talk on Malayalam Font Development and related Technologies.
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Wikimania 2013, Hong Kong- Talk delivered on a survey conducted among my students and colleagues on the usage pattern of online resources for learning.
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International Conference on Green Technologies, ICGT 2012, Thiruvananthapuram : Paper presented on my master’s thesis on Vector Quantization Codebook generation.
WORKSHOPS
- LaTeX tutorial and hands-on training workshop organized by the Malayalam department at the University of Kerala, with support from ICFOSS during Dec 22nd and 23rd, 2018. A sample template for thesis report in Malayalam prepared for the workshop is available here.
- Workshop on Electronic Circuit Simulation and analysis tool- eSim at Aryanet Institute of Technology, Palakkad on 30th November, 2016.
- CEC ISQIP’16- IEEE Student Quality Improvement Programme at College of Engineering Chengannur. Led an introductory workshop on Version Control Systems.
- Introductory workshop and hands-on training:‘Report making using LateX’ at Aryanet Institute of Technology, Palakkad on 9th June, 2015.
Lab Manuals for Undergraduate Courses
- A Lab manual for basic Analog Communication Lab.
- A Labmanual for Communication Engineering (Analog and Digital) Lab