Author:Van Heerden, C; Barnard, E; Davel, MDate:Sep 2009Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have great potential for information access in the developing world. However, the realisation of that potential requires the solution of several challenging problems, including the development of sufficiently ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, C; Schalkwyk, J; Strope, BDate:Sep 2009This paper describes the language modelling (LM) architectures and recognition experiments that enabled support of 'what-with-where' queries on GOOG-411. First the paper compares accuracy trade-offs between a single national business LM for ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:Sep 2009The rapid development of concatenative speech synthesis systems in resource scarce languages requires an efficient and accurate solution with regard to automated phonetic alignment. However, in this context corpora are often minimally designed ...Read more
Author:Davel, M; Martirosian, ODate:Sep 2009The deployment of speech technology systems in the developing world is often hampered by the lack of appropriate linguistic resources. A suitable pronunciation dictionary is one such resource that can be difficult to obtain for lesser-resourced ...Read more
