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AAC services for multilingual populations: South African service provider perspectives

Author: Tönsing, KM ; Van Niekerk, K ; Schlunz, Georg I ; Wilken, Ilana Date: Jun 2018 BACKGROUND: In South Africa, many persons in need of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) come from multilingual backgrounds. There is as yet a limited evidence base (locally and internationally) for the provision of AAC services ... Read more
Applications in accessibility of text-to-speech synthesis for South African languages: Initial system integration and user engagement

Author: Schlunz, Georg I ; Wilken, Ilana ; Moors, Carmen ; Gumede, Tebogo ; Van der Walt, Willem J ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Tönsing, K ; Van Niekerk, K Date: Sep 2017 Persons with certain disabilities face barriers to information access and interpersonal communication. Assistive technologies provide workaround solutions to these problems. Augmentative and alternative communication systems aid the person ... Read more
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
Bringing children’s dictionaries to digital life

Author: Wilken, Ilana ; Marais, Laurette Date: Nov 2023 South Africa is facing a literacy crisis, with the latest PIRLS results showing that 8 out of 10 learners cannot read for basic comprehension by the time they leave the foundation phase. In this climate, the development of strategies to assist ... Read more
Human Language Technology Audit 2018: Analysing the development trends in resource availability in all South African languages

Author: Moors, Carmen ; Wilken, Ilana ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Gumede, Tebogo Date: Sep 2018 Almost a decade has passed since the first audit on the state of HLT in South Africa was published in 2009. An increase in HLT R&D in South Africa since then, as well as developments in language resource management in the country surfaced the ... Read more
Human Language Technology Audit 2018: Design Considerations and Methodology

Author: Wilken, Ilana ; Gumede, Tebogo ; Moors, Carmen ; Calteaux, Karen V Date: Dec 2018 Technology audits can play a significant role in surfacing information which can be used by researchers, policymakers and funders alike to build a country’s research and development system of innovation towards increasing its competitiveness, ... Read more
Language learning applications for Sepedi: A user experience study

Author: Wilken, Ilana ; Taljard, E ; De Wet, Febe Date: Nov 2018 Being a multilingual country rich in culture and diversity, South Africa has residents who use a variety of the 11 official languages for daily communication. Multilingual communication occurs especially in hospitals and clinics. People ... Read more
Morphology-based investigation of differences between spoken and written isiZulu

Author: Marais, Laurette ; Wilken, Ilana Date: Nov 2021 Research attempting to describe and quantify the differences between spoken and written language has been done for languages such as English, but not for isiZulu. In this paper, we present a quantitative investigation into such differences ... Read more
Multilingualism and augmentative and alternative communication in South Africa – Exploring the views of persons with complex communication needs

Author: Tönsing, KM ; Van Niekerk, K ; Schlunz, Georg I ; Wilken, Ilana Date: Apr 2019 Background: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can assist persons with complex communication needs to communicate competently with a variety of communication partners in a variety of contexts. However, AAC systems and intervention ... Read more
Multimodal, multilingual dynamic stories for literacy development and language learning

Author: Marais, Laurette ; Wilken, Ilana ; Pretorius, L ; Posthumus, L Date: Jul 2023 © 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 19-21 July 2023 Read more

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