Indranil Dutta

I am a computational linguist with interests in speech acoustics, motor control, and automatic methods of grammar induction. My research spans areas within acoustic phonetics, computational phonology, and natural language processing. Within the Speech Dynamics Laboratory (SpeeDyLab) at Jadavpur University, we are interested in articulatory imaging and modeling, and understanding how the dynamics of speech production and perception systems seamlessly integrate within a unified embodied cognition framework. With paradigms ranging from Ultrasound imaging, computational modeling, and eye-tracking, The SpeeDylab is focussed on uncovering links between speech production and perception, and learning how these links provide insight into reading-related complexities. I earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and taught at Rice University, Houston, TX between 2008 and 2010 and the Department of Computational Linguistics, at The English and Foreign Languages university. Since June 2020, I have been a Professor at the School of Languages and Linguistics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Google scholar profile can be found here.
I am on Bluesky @academicmargin.

Upcoming talks

Contrast density and shared phonological features in creative phonetic representations: articulatory, acoustic and perceptual evidence from South Asian languages, invited lecture at the 40th South Asian Language Analysis (SALA-40) roundtable, 9th-11th September 2026, Universit"at Bielefeld

Recent public talks

When Machines Listen: Language, Voice, and Meaning in the Digital Age invited lecture at Mizoram University, 30th April 2026
Include, Scale, and Reach Out - Challenges Ahead and Learning from ManyX Projects at the BTS Conference 2025
Translation and Annotation of Code-Switched Data at the Translation and Annotation of Scientific, Technical and Knowledge Texts Workshop, Indian Statistical Institute, 5th March 2025
Speaking to Thrive: The Power of Mother Tongue Education and Multilingual Minds invited lecture at the Language Division, Census of India, 21st February 2024