van Heerden, CharlDe Villiers, PieterBarnard, EtienneDavel, Marelie H.2018-03-072018-03-072011Charl J van Heerden, Pieter de Villiers, Etienne Barnard and Marelie H Davel, “Processing spoken lectures in resource-scarce environments”, in Proc. Annual Symp. Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), pp 138-143, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 2011. [http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/multilingual-speech-technologies-must/publications]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235425721_Processing_Spoken_Lectures_in_Resource-Scarce_Environmentshttps://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/handle/10204/5681/VanHeerden_2011.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yhttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/26550Initial work towards processing Afrikaans spoken lectures in a resource-scarce environment is presented. Two approaches to acoustic modeling for eventual alignment are compared: (a) using a well-trained target-language acoustic model and (b) using an acoustic model from another language, in this case American English. We show that while target-language acoustic models are preferable, similar performance can be achieved by repeatedly bootstrapping with the American English model, segmenting and then adapting or training new models using the segmented spoken lectures. The eventual systems perform quite well, aligning more than 90% of a selected set of target words successfully.enAfrikaans spoken lecturesProcessing Spoken LecturesResource-Scarce EnvironmentsAcoustic modelingPresentation