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Development of a spoken language identification system for South African languages

Author: Peché, M ; Davel, MH ; Barnard, E Date: Dec 2009 This article introduces the first Spoken Language Identification system developed to distinguish among all eleven of South Africa’s official languages. The PPR-LM (Parallel Phoneme Recognition followed by Language Modeling) architecture is ... Read more
Effect of speech rate variation on acoustic phone stability in Afrikaans speech recognition

Author: Badenhorst, JAC ; Davel, MH Date: Nov 2007 The authors analyse the effect of speech rate variation on Afrikaans phone stability from an acoustic perspective. Specifically they introduce two techniques for the acoustic analysis of speech rate variation, apply these techniques to an ... Read more
Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data

Author: Peche, M ; Davel, MH ; Barnard, E Date: Aug 2007 The authors investigate the addition of a new language, for which limited resources are available, to a phonotactic language identification system. Two classes of approaches are studied: in the first class, only existing phonetic recognizers ... Read more
Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages

Author: Govender, Natasha ; Barnard, E ; Davel, MH Date: Jun 2007 Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in ... Read more
A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages

Author: De Vries, NJ ; Davel, MH ; Badenhorst, J ; Basson, WD ; De Wet, Febe ; Barnard, E ; De Waal, A Date: Jan 2014 Acoustic data collection for automatic speech recognition (ASR) purposes is a particularly challenging task when working with under resourced languages, many of which are found in the developing world. We provide a brief overview of related ... Read more

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