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Applications in accessibility of text-to-speech synthesis for South African languages: Initial system integration and user engagement

Author: Schlunz, Georg I ; Wilken, Ilana ; Moors, Carmen ; Gumede, Tebogo ; Van der Walt, Willem J ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Tönsing, K ; Van Niekerk, K Date: Sep 2017 Persons with certain disabilities face barriers to information access and interpersonal communication. Assistive technologies provide workaround solutions to these problems. Augmentative and alternative communication systems aid the person ... Read more
AwezaMed: A multilingual, multimodal speech-to-speech translation application for maternal health care

Author: Marais, Laurette ; Louw, Johannes A ; Badenhorst, Jacob AC ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Wilken, Ilana ; Van Niekerk, Nina ; Stein, Glenn Date: Jul 2020 The language contexts of multilingual developing countries such as South Africa are often characterised by communication challenges resulting from language differences. AwezaMed is a multilingual, multimodal speech-to-speech translation ... Read more
Business drivers and design choices for multilingual IVRs : A government service delivery case study

Author: Calteaux, Karen V ; Grover, AS ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: May 2012 Multilingual emerging markets hold many opportunities for the application of spoken language technologies, such as interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Designing such systems requires an in-depth understanding of the business drivers and ... Read more
Human Language Technology Audit 2018: Analysing the development trends in resource availability in all South African languages

Author: Moors, Carmen ; Wilken, Ilana ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Gumede, Tebogo Date: Sep 2018 Almost a decade has passed since the first audit on the state of HLT in South Africa was published in 2009. An increase in HLT R&D in South Africa since then, as well as developments in language resource management in the country surfaced the ... Read more
Human Language Technology Audit 2018: Design Considerations and Methodology

Author: Wilken, Ilana ; Gumede, Tebogo ; Moors, Carmen ; Calteaux, Karen V Date: Dec 2018 Technology audits can play a significant role in surfacing information which can be used by researchers, policymakers and funders alike to build a country’s research and development system of innovation towards increasing its competitiveness, ... Read more
Mobile user experience for voice services: A theoretical framework

Author: Botha, Adèle ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Herselman, Martha E ; Grover, AS ; Barnard, E Date: Feb 2012 The purpose of this paper is to provide a “Mobile User Experience Framework for Voice services.” The rapid spread of mobile cellular technology within Africa has made it a prime vehicle for accessing services and content. The challenge remains ... 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
Towards an information ecosystem for animal disease surveillance using voice services

Author: Sharma Grover, A ; Van Huyssteen, G ; Calteaux, Karen V Date: Jan 2013 In this paper we introduce a solution for disease surveillance and monitoring in the primary animal health care (PAHC) domain that uses inbound voice-based services and voice- and text-based outbound services for connecting rural veterinarians ... Read more
A voice service for user feedback on school meals

Author: Sharma Grover, AS ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Barnard, E ; Van Huyssteen, G Date: Mar 2012 Research using voice-based services as a technology platform for providing information access and services within developing world regions has shown much promise. The results for design and deployment of such voice-based services have varied ... Read more
Voice user interface design for emerging multilingual markets

Author: Van Huyssteen, G ; Sharma Grover, A ; Calteaux, Karen V Date: Oct 2012 Multilingual emerging markets hold many opportunities for the application of spoken language technologies, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) or test-to-speech (TTS) technologies in interactive voice response (IVR) systems. However, ... Read more

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