Intern | MIT
Manipal, Karnataka
- Researched and fine-tuned OpenAI's Whisper models for Kannada, reducing Word Error Rate (WER) of Whisper-Small from 100.4% to 23.12% using Romanized Kannada text (IAST), resulting in 2x faster inference speed.
- Developed Dhravani, a multilingual speech corpus collection tool using Flask, Google OAuth2, and PostgreSQL, enabling audio recording, validation, and automatic syncing to HuggingFace. Deployed for beta testing and presented at Manipal Entrepreneurship Summit 2025.
- Created Type2Script, a browser extension for real-time transliteration across Indian languages, enhancing multilingual typing accessibility.