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:Kamper, H; De Wet, Febe; Hain, T; Niesler, TDate:May 2012We present a description of the development and evaluation of a first South African broadcast news transcription system. We describe a number of speech resources which have been collected in the resource-scarce South African environment for ...Read more