Author:Modipa, T; Davel, MHDate:Nov 2010This study focuses on the effective pronunciation modelling of words from different languages encountered during the development of a Sepedi automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. While the speech corpus used for training the ASR system ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, MC; Olivier, JCDate:Jul 2009This paper presents a classification method which discriminates between two radar transmitters based on the received pulses. A simple radar transmitter model is presented to which a non-stationary signal classifier is applied. The classifier ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes ADate:Nov 2008This paper introduces a new multilingual text-to-speech system, which we call Speect (Speech synthesis with extensible architecture), aiming to address the shortcomings of using Festival as a research sytem and Flite as a deployment system ...Read more
Author:Kleynhans, N; Barnard, EDate:Dec 2013Speech technologies have matured over the past few decades and have made significant impacts in a variety of fields, from assistive technologies to personal assistants. However, speech system development is a resource intensive activity and ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, J; Jermy, R; Nicolls, FDate:Nov 2015This paper evaluates the effect of mixing the distortion centre, principal point and arithmetic image centre on the distortion correction, focal length determination and resulting real-world stereo vision triangulation. A robotic arm is used ...Read more