Online Summer School & Internship 2026 on Speech Signal Processing and ASR for Low-Resource Languages
Organization
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Duration
2 Months
Overview
The programme is conducted with academic mentorship inspired by research practices at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Programme Details
Programme Type: Online Summer School & Internship
Mode: Fully Online
Session Format: Weekend Interactive Sessions
Duration: 2 Months
Programme Start Date: 23 May 2026
Certification: Certificate provided upon successful completion
Registration Fee
Programme Fee: ₹1499/-
What Participants Will Learn
- Fundamentals of Speech Signal Processing
- Spectrograms, MFCCs & Feature Extraction
- ASR Pipelines & Data Annotation
- Training ASR Models using Google Colab
- Wav2Vec2 & Whisper-based ASR Systems
- Error Analysis using WER/CER
- Research Methodology in Speech AI
- Mini Research Project with Mentorship
Programme Timeline
Week-wise Structure
| Week | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Speech Processing Fundamentals |
| Week 2 | ASR Pipeline & Data Annotation |
| Week 3 | Model Training using Wav2Vec2 & Whisper |
| Week 4 | Evaluation & Error Analysis |
| Week 5–6 | Mini Research Project with Mentorship |
| Final Week | Project Presentation & Report |
Programme Highlights
- Hands-on coding using Google Colab
- Weekend live sessions
- Real-world ASR challenges for low-resource languages
- Research-oriented mini projects
- Guidance toward conference-quality research work
Eligibility Criteria
- B.Tech Students
- M.Tech Students
- PhD Scholars
- AI & NLP Researchers
- Speech Processing Enthusiasts
- Anyone interested in building ASR systems for Indian and low-resource languages
Registration & Contact Details
Registration Form : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOJrH6H-oAlJqNjXiZMjuoDzJGlK93JLg2t6hO05l_RaENZQ/viewform
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