Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Jul 2006Bootstrapping techniques can accelerate the development of language technology for resource-scarce languages. We (the authors) define a framework for the analysis of a general bootstrapping process whereby a model is improved through a ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, J; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Aug 2011The authors describe the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which contains data from the eleven official languages of South Africa. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per ...Read more