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The NCHLT Speech Corpus of the South African languages
(Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU), 2014)
The NCHLT speech corpus contains wide-band speech from approximately
200 speakers per language, in each of the eleven
official languages of South Africa. We describe the design and
development processes that were ...
Language Independent Search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search Task
(Elsevier Ltd., 2014)
In this paper, we describe several approaches to language-independent spoken term detection and compare their performanceon a common task, namely “Spoken Web Search”. The goal of this part of the MediaEval initiative is ...
Performance analysis of a multilingual directory enquiries application
(Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2014)
In a multilingual society such as South Africa, a
practical directory enquiries (DE) application should be able to
serve users from various language backgrounds with information
relating to names in various languages: ...
Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey
(Elsevier, 2014)
Speech processing for under-resourced languages is an active field of research, which has experienced significant progress during the
past decade. We propose, in this paper, a survey that focuses on automatic speech ...
A Target Approximation Intonation Model for Yorùbá TTS
(Interspeech 2014, 2014)
A complete intonation model based on quantitative target approximation
is described for Yor`ub´a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis.
This model is evaluated analytically and perceptually
and compared to a fundamental frequency ...
Number pronunciation in a multilingual environment and implications for an ASR system
(Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2014)
The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges
and describe step-by-step solutions faced when developing an
automatic speech recognition system in multilingual societies.
We give a brief statistical analysis of ...
Semi-Supervised Training for Lecture Transcription in Resource-Scarce Environments
(Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2014)
We present a study where standard semi-supervised
training methods are applied in a resource-scarce environment
to build lecture transcription systems. Experiments are
conducted on two different corpora which one can ...