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AwezaMed: A multilingual, multimodal speech-to-speech translation application for maternal health care

Author: Marais, Laurette ; Louw, Johannes A ; Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Wilken, Ilana ; Van Niekerk, Nina ; Stein, Glenn Date: Jul 2020 The language contexts of multilingual developing countries such as South Africa are often characterised by communication challenges resulting from language differences. AwezaMed is a multilingual, multimodal speech-to-speech translation ... Read more
BLSTM harvesting of auxiliary NCHLT speech data

Author: Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; Martinus, Laura ; De Wet, Febe Date: Jan 2019 Since the release of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) Speech corpus, very few additional resources for automatic speech recognition (ASR) system development have been created for South Africa’s eleven official languages. ... Read more
Gauging the accuracy of automatic speech data harvesting in five under-resourced languages

Author: Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; De Wet, F Date: Mar 2023 Recent research on deep-learning architectures has resulted in substantial improvements in automatic speech recognition accuracy. The leaps of progress made in well-resourced languages can be attributed to the fact that these architectures ... Read more
Investigating the feasibility of harvesting broadcast speech data to develop resources for South African languages

Author: Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; De Wet, Febe Date: Nov 2021 Sufficient target language data remains an important factor in the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. For instance, the substantial improvement in acoustic modelling that deep architectures have recently achieved for ... Read more
The limitations of data perturbation for ASR of learner data in under-resourced languages

Author: Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; De Wet, Febe Date: Nov 2017 This paper reports on the recognition of second language (L2) isiXhosa speech produced by beginner level adult language learners. The speech samples were produced and recorded during the development of a Mobile Assisted Language Learning ... Read more
NCHLT Auxiliary speech data for ASR technology development in South Africa

Author: Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; De Wet, Febe Date: Apr 2022 The aim of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) project was to create speech and text resources that would enable Human Language Technology (HLT) development for the 11 official languages of South Africa. The speech data ... Read more
Rapid development of a command and control interface for smart office environments

Author: Ramunyisi, Ndivhuwo S ; Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; Moors, Carmen ; Gumede, Tebogo Date: Sep 2018 Speech-driven command and control is increasingly gaining momentum in the world around us. Using human speech to control appliances in trendy living spaces allows a user to control many appliances remotely. This paper discusses the rapid ... Read more
The usefulness of imperfect speech data for ASR development in low-resource languages

Author: Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; De Wet, Febe Date: Aug 2019 When the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) Speech corpus was released, it created various opportunities for speech technology development in the 11 official, but critically under-resourced, languages of South Africa. Since ... Read more

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