Author:Kamper, H; De Wet, Febe; Hain, T; Niesler, TDate:Nov 2014South African English is currently considered an under-resourced variety of English. Extensive speech resources are, however, available for North American (US) English. In this paper we consider the use of these US resources in the development ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jacob AC; De Wet, FebeDate:Apr 2022The aim of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) project was to create speech and text resources that would enable Human Language Technology (HLT) development for the 11 official languages of South Africa. The speech data ...Read more
Author:De Vries, NJ; Davel, MH; Badenhorst, J; Basson, WD; De Wet, Febe; Barnard, E; De Waal, ADate:Jan 2014Acoustic 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