2 papers
cs.CV2026
Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation
Ashish Thapa, Samrat Karki
We built a compact convolutional network (1.11 M parameters) for 46-class DHCD Devanagari recognition and reached 99.73%, the highest reported at 15.6x smaller than prior state-of-…
cs.SD2026
sanoTTS: The Smallest Real-Time Neural TTS on a General-Purpose Microcontroller
Ashish Thapa
This paper describes an audited neural text-to-speech stack that runs from phoneme IDs to 22.05-kHz PCM on general-purpose microcontrollers. Its deployed graph has 567,008 paramete…