Rita Singh

Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University

  • Pittsburgh PA

Rita Singh works on core algorithmic aspects of computer voice recognition and artificial intelligence applied to voice forensics.

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Rita Singh works on core algorithmic aspects of computer voice recognition and artificial intelligence applied to voice forensics. Her focus is on the development of technology for the automated discovery, measurement, representation and learning of the information encoded in voice signal for optimal voice intelligence. Her work seeks to enable computing machines to not only recognize the content of human speech better in general, but also to understand and respond to humans by gauging their persona, their intent and their status vis-a-vis their environment from their voice alone, with an acuity that surpasses that of the human brain. This part of her research represents an intersection of the areas of AI and voice forensics. She continues to work toward making voice intelligence algorithms work much better than currently possible in high-noise and other kinds of complex environments, using minimal external (human-generated) knowledge.

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IoT Security and Privacy
Formal Methods
AI and ML for Security
Cryptography
Emerging Applications Security
Systems Security
Blockchain

Media Appearances

Fact Check: Video of UK's Starmer embracing Labour Party donor is AI, experts say

Reuters  online

2025-05-08

Rita Singh (School of Computer Science) debunked a video of Britain Prime Minister Keir Starmer romantically embracing a donor as AI-generated.

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CMU Students Train AI to Write Book of Limericks

Carnegie Mellon University  online

2021-02-10

Their digital Shakespeare was a project last semester in the School of Computer Science's Introduction to Deep Learning course. The instructor, Rita Singh, associate research professor in the Language Technologies Institute, said she suggested the project as a way for students to explore how AI might capture elements of artistic expression that are hard to quantify.

"What makes a few lines of English written by Tennyson 'poetry' and a 'masterpiece' while the same number of lines written by someone else following the same pattern/rule/rhyme turn out to be perfectly mundane and mediocre?" she said.

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Do I sound sick to you? Researchers are building AI that would diagnose COVID-19 by listening to people talk.

Business Insider  online

2020-04-30

"If we can prove that it works, this would be a very easy-to-use tool for businesses when they open up. People can just talk into a machine and the machine could alert them if there's something wrong," Carnegie Mellon researcher Rita Singh told Business Insider. "It would be a powerful technology that could ease testing all across the world."

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Education

National Geophysical Research Institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Ph.D.

Geophysics

Banaras Hindu University:

M.S.

Exploration Geophysics

Banaras Hindu University

B.S.

Physics