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Developing intonation corpora for isiXhosa and isiZulu

Author: Govender, Natasha ; Barnard, E ; Davel, M Date: Nov 2005 In order to bring the tools of statistical pattern recognition to bear on intonation modelling, we need tailor-made corpora in the languages of interest. We describe how two such corpora were developed (for isiZulu and isiXhosa, respectively). ... Read more
Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments

Author: Govender, Nicolin ; Barnard, E ; Davel, MH Date: Sep 2005 Much theoretical work has been done on the tonal structure of languages in the Bantu family. However, most of these studies are not supported by physical measurements, or even a consistent model for mapping from linguistic constructs to such ... 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
Overview of HLT's for South African Bantu languages

Author: Sharma Grover, A ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Van Huyssteen, G ; Pretorius, M Date: Oct 2010 South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that boasts a large number of official languages. Due to the efforts of the government and the local research and development (R&D) community all the official languages are enabled with ... Read more
Statistical investigations into isiZulu intonation

Author: Kuun, C ; Zimu, V ; Barnard, E ; Davel, M Date: Nov 2005 We study the relationship between lexical tone and measured values of fundamental frequency for several word classes in isiZulu, based on objective measurements from recordings of three speakers. For nouns and adjectives, both in isolation ... Read more
Unsupervised acoustic model training: comparing South African English and isiZulu

Author: Kleynhans, N ; De Wet, Febe ; Barnard, E Date: Nov 2015 Large amounts of untranscribed audio data are generated every day. These audio resources can be used to develop robust acoustic models that can be used in a variety of speech-based systems. Manually transcribing this data is resource intensive ... Read more

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