Rita Singh

Rita Singh is an Indian and American computer scientist. Educated in India, she works in the US as a research professor in the Language Technologies Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science,[1][2] where she is the founding director of the Center for Voice Intelligence and Security.[3] She works in speech processing, and is an expert on speaker recognition and on speech forensics, determining the likely characteristics of a human speaker from samples of their speech.[4] She is the author of the book Profiling Humans from their Voice (Springer, 2019).

Education and career

Singh was a student at Banaras Hindu University in India, where she received a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in geophysics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1996 at the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, with a dissertation involving nonlinear systems in geophysics.[5]

After continuing her research as a postdoctoral scholar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research from 1996 to 1997, she joined Carnegie Mellon University in the US in 1997, and began working there on speech processing.[5]

Recognition

Singh was recognized as a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2026, "for pioneering advancements in human voice profiling and computational voice forensics".[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Rita Singh", Faculty, CMU Language Technologies Institute, retrieved 2026-08-04
  2. ↑ Long bio: Rita Singh (PDF), CMU Language Technologies Institute, retrieved 2026-08-04
  3. ↑ "People", Center for Voice Intelligence and Security, CMU Computer Science, retrieved 2026-08-04
  4. ↑ Brandon, Simon (January 10, 2018), "Emerging technologies: How to catch a criminal using only milliseconds of audio", World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018, World Economic Forum, retrieved 2026-08-04
  5. 1 2 Author biography from Singh, R.; Raj, B.; Stern, R.M. (2002), "Automatic generation of subword units for speech recognition systems", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 10 (2), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 89–99, doi:10.1109/89.985546
  6. ↑ ISCA Fellows Program, International Speech Communication Association, retrieved 2026-08-04
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