ICASSP 2005 Best student paper award for PhD student Shankar Ananthakrishnan

The paper presented by Shankar at the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) has been selected as a best student paper in the speech and audio processing area: 'An Automatic Prosody Recognizer using a Coupled Multi-Stream Acoustic Model and a Syntactic-Prosodic Language Model' , Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California

Shankar, a PhD student in the Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (sail.usc.edu), will receive a certificate and a $500 award.