Kgampe, MDavel, MH2012-04-162012-04-162011-11Kgampe, M and Davel, MH. The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages. 22nd Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Emerald Casino and Resort, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 22-25 November 2011978-0-620-51914-4http://www.prasa.org/proceedings/2011/prasa2011-16.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/577122nd Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Emerald Casino and Resort, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 22-25 November 2011Personal names are often pronounced in very different ways depending on the language background of the speaker. We seek to determine whether some of these pronunciations ‘errors’ are systematic and if so, in which ways. Specifically, we analyze some of the the typical errors made by speakers from four South African languages (Setswana, English, isiZulu) when producing names from the same four languages. We compare these results with the pronunciations generated by four language-specific grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) predictors trained on generic words from the four languages. We find that the G2P predictors are able to predict at least some of the typical errors humans make and, in fact, that these errors are slightly more predictable than the correct pronunciations themselves.enSouth African languagesPronunciation errorsPattern recognitionGrapheme-to-phonemeG2PG2P predictorsSpeech technologiesConference PresentationKgampe, M., & Davel, M. (2011). The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages. PRASA. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771Kgampe, M, and MH Davel. "The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages." (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771Kgampe M, Davel M, The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages; PRASA; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Kgampe, M AU - Davel, MH AB - Personal names are often pronounced in very different ways depending on the language background of the speaker. We seek to determine whether some of these pronunciations ‘errors’ are systematic and if so, in which ways. Specifically, we analyze some of the the typical errors made by speakers from four South African languages (Setswana, English, isiZulu) when producing names from the same four languages. We compare these results with the pronunciations generated by four language-specific grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) predictors trained on generic words from the four languages. We find that the G2P predictors are able to predict at least some of the typical errors humans make and, in fact, that these errors are slightly more predictable than the correct pronunciations themselves. DA - 2011-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - South African languages KW - Pronunciation errors KW - Pattern recognition KW - Grapheme-to-phoneme KW - G2P KW - G2P predictors KW - Speech technologies LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 978-0-620-51914-4 T1 - The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages TI - The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771 ER -