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    • Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey 

      Laurent Besacier; Etienne Barnard; Alexey Karpov; Tanja Schultz (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 ...
    • Factors that affect the accuracy of text–based language identification 

      Gerrit Reinier Botha; Etienne Barnard (Elsevier, 2012)
      The classification accuracy of text-based language identification depends on several factors, including the size of the text fragment to be identified, the amount of training data available, the classification features and ...
    • Multilingual pronunciations of proper names in a Southern African corpus 

      Jan W.F. Thirion; Etienne Barnard; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2012)
      We present our process for the development and analysis of a multilingual names corpus, called Multipron-split. It is derived from Multipron, a corpus collected in previous work [1], where names and speakers were drawn ...