[3] One of the commitments of the MILE lab is the development of technology for people with visual impairment to harness knowledge from any available printed material in Indian languages.
Its work so far has included: document mosaicing of coloured, camera captured images ; text extraction from complex colour images, including camera captured images; document layout analysis; detection of broken and merged characters; OCR technology for Tamil and Kannada;[5] text to speech conversion in Tamil and Kannada;[6] pitch modification using discrete cosine transform in the source domain;[7] automated part of speech tagging; phrase prediction and prosody modeling.
Mozhi Vallan, the Tamil OCR[8] product developed by MILE Lab, is being used by Worth Trust and Karna Vidya Technology Centre, Chennai[9] for the conversion of printed school and college books to Braille format.
Lipi Gnani, the Kannada OCR developed by MILE Lab is being used by Braille Transcription Centers of Mitrajyothi[11] and Canara Bank Relief & Welfare Society,[12] Bangalore for similar purposes.
Currently, the lab is researching on machine listening[16] and a novel temporal feature named as plosion index has been proposed, which has been shown to be extremely effective in detecting closure-burst transitions of stop consonants and affricates from continuous speech, even in noise.