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Building synthetic voices for under-resourced languages: a comparison between audiobook and studio data

Author: De Wet, Febe ; Dlamini, Nkosikhona ; Van der Walt, Willem J ; Govender, Avashna Date: Dec 2017 Creating synthetic voices that are both natural and intelligible is a daunting challenge for well-resourced languages. The challenge is much bigger for languages in which the speech and text resources required for voice development are not ... Read more
Code-switched English pronunciation modeling for Swahili spoken term detection

Author: Kleynhans, N ; Hartman, W ; Van Niekerk, D ; Van Heerden, C ; Schwartz, R ; Tsakalidis, S ; Davel, M Date: May 2016 We investigate modeling strategies for English code-switched words as found in a Swahili spoken term detection system. Code switching, where speakers switch language in a conversation, occurs frequently in multilingual environments, and ... Read more
Efficient harvesting of Internet audio for resource-scarce ASR

Author: Davel, MH ; Van Heerden, C ; Kleynhans, N ; Barnard, E Date: Aug 2011 Spoken recordings that have been transcribed for human reading (e.g. as captions for audiovisual material, or to provide alternative modes of access to recordings) are widely available in many languages. Such recordings and transcriptions ... Read more
Pooling ASR data for closely related languages

Author: Van Heerden, C ; Kleynhans, N ; Barnard, E ; Davel, M Date: May 2010 We describe several experiments that were conducted to assess the viability of data pooling as a means to improve speech-recognition performance for under-resourced languages. Two groups of closely related languages from the Southern Bantu ... Read more
Quality measurements for mobile data collection in the developing world

Author: Badenhorst, J ; De Waal, A ; De Wet, Febe Date: May 2012 The collection of speech data suitable for speech technology development is a challenge for under-resourced languages. Factors such as cost, availability of mother-tongue speakers and vast geographic distances call for techniques to optimise ... Read more
Resource development and experiments in automatic SA broadcast news transcription

Author: Kamper, H ; De Wet, Febe ; Hain, T ; Niesler, T Date: May 2012 We 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
Speech data collection in an under-resourced language within a multilingual context

Author: Molapo, B ; Barnard, E ; De Wet, Febe Date: May 2014 In this paper, we present an end-to-end solution to the development of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system in typical under-resourced languages, where the target language is likely to be influenced by one more embedded foreign ... Read more
Yorùbá Gender Recognition from Speech using Neural Networks

Author: Sefara, Tshephisho J ; Modupe, Abiodun Date: Nov 2019 The impressive improvement in performance obtained using neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) have motivated the application of neural networks to other speech technologies such as speaker, emotion, language, and gender ... Read more

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Browsing Conference Publications by Subject "Under-resourced languages"

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