Author:Barnard, E; Gouws, E; Wolvaardt, K; Kleynhans, NDate:Nov 2004A number of issues realted to the development of speech-recognition systems with Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are discussed. A set of systematic experiments using the HTK toolkit and the TMIT database are used to elucidate matters such as the ...Read more
Author:Davel, MH; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2004The authors define a novel g-to-p prediction algorithm that utilises the concept of a 'default phoneme': a grapheme which is realised as a specific phoneme significantly more often than as any other phoneme. They found that this approach ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, L; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2004This paper analyses a number of disabilities, their assistive devices and the associated technologies in order to highlight the role pattern recognition plays in enabling accessibility and improving human computer interaction for people living ...Read more