Author:Govender, Avashna; Nouhou, B; De Wet, FebeDate:Nov 2015Acquiring large amounts of child speech data is a particularly difficult task. One could therefore consider the possibility to add existing corpora of child speech data to the severely limited resources that are available for developing child ...Read more
Author:Schlunz, Georg I; Barnard, E; Van Huyssteen, GBDate:Nov 2010One of the goals of text-to-speech (TTS) systems is to produce natural-sounding synthesised speech. Towards this end various natural language processing (NLP) tasks are performed to model the prosodic aspects of the TTS voice. One of the ...Read more
Author:Dabrowski, JJ; Beyers, C; De Villiers, Johan PDate:Nov 2016For decades, the literature on banking crisis early-warning systems has been dominated by two methods, namely, the signal extraction and the logit model methods. However, these methods, do not model the dynamics of the systemic banking system. ...Read morecb