Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Sep 2006Pronunciation lexicons often contain pronunciation variants. This can create two problems: It can be difficult to define these variants in an internally consistent way and it can also be difficult to extract generalised grapheme-to-phoneme ...Read more
Author:Loots, L; De Wet, Febe; Niesler, TDate:Nov 2010In this study we explore the extension of a small Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary by applying phoneme-tophoneme (P2P) and grapheme-and-phoneme-to-phoneme (GP2P)
conversion to an existing and more extensive Dutch pronunciation dictionary. ...Read more
Author:Davel, MHDate:Aug 2005Bootstrapping techniques have the potential to accelerate the development of language technology resources. This is of specific importance in the developing world where language technology resources are scarce and linguistic diversity is high. ...Read more
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