Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Mar 2009The authors describes the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which includes data from nine Southern Bantu languages. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per language is ...Read more
Author:Martirosian, O; Davel, MDate:Nov 2007The authors explore pattern recognition techniques for verifying the correctness of a pronunciation lexicon, focusing on techniques that require limited human interaction. They evaluate the British English Example Pronunciation (BEEP) dictionary ...Read more
Author:Feld, M; Barnard, E; Van Heerden, C; Muller, CDate:Dec 2009Multilinguality represents an area of significant opportunities for automatic speech-processing systems: whereas multilingual societies are commonplace, the majority of speechprocessing systems are developed with a single language in mind. ...Read more
Author:Molapo, R; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2014The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges and describe step-by-step solutions faced when developing an automatic speech recognition system in multilingual societies. We give a brief statistical analysis of the data that have been ...Read more