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    • Bilateral G2P accuracy: measuring the effect of variants 

      Giwa, Oluwapelumi; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2017)
      Incorporating pronunciation variants in a dictionary is controversial, as this can be either advantageous or detrimental for a speech recognition system. Grapheme-tophoneme (G2P) accuracy can help guide this decision, ...

    • The effect of language identification accuracy on speech recognition accuracy of proper names 

      Giwa, Oluwapelumi; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2017)
      Utilising the known language of origin of a name can be useful when predicting the pronunciation of the name. When this language is not known, automatic language identification (LID) can be used to influence which ...

    • Language identification of individual words with joint sequence models 

      Giwa, Oluwapelumi; Davel, Marelie H. (Interspeech 2014, 2014)
      Within a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, knowledge of the language of origin of unknown words can improve pronunciation modelling accuracy. This is of particular importance for ASR systems required ...

    • A Southern African corpus for multilingual name pronunciation 

      Giwa, Oluwapelumi; Davel, Marelie H.; Barnard, Etienne (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2011)
      We describe the challenges that arise in predicting the pronunciations of proper names in a multilingual society. In order to improve our understanding of this issue – which is of significant practical importance for ...