Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Mar 2009The authors describes the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which includes data from nine Southern Bantu languages. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per language is ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Davel, MDate:Nov 2008When developing speech recognition systems in resource-constrained environments, careful design of the training corpus can play an important role in compensating for data scarcity. One of the factors to consider relates to the speaker composition ...Read more