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dc.contributor.authorVan Heerden, Carel J.
dc.contributor.authorDe Wet, Febe
dc.contributor.authorDavel, Marelie H.
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-04T06:13:57Z
dc.date.available2014-11-04T06:13:57Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationVan Heerden, C.J. & De Wet, F., et al. 2012. Automatic alignment of audiobooks in Afrikaans. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa. Pretoria. p. 187-191. [http://www.prasa.org/]en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-620-54601-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/12126
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports on the automatic alignment of audiobooks in Afrikaans. An existing Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary and corpus of Afrikaans speech data are used to generate baseline acoustic models. The baseline system achieves an average duration independent overlap rate of 0.977 on the first three chapters of an audio version of “Ruiter in die Nag”, an Afrikaans book by Mikro. The average duration independent overlap rate increases to 0.990 when the speech data from the audiobook is used to perform Maximum A Posteriori adaptation on the baseline models. The corresponding value for models trained on the audiobook data is 0.996. An automatic measure of alignment accuracy is also introduced and compared to accuracies measured relative to a gold standard.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.prasa.org/index.php/2012-03-07-10-55-15
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA)en_US
dc.titleAutomatic alignment of audiobooks in Afrikaansen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID11539151 - Van Heerden, Carel Jacobus
dc.contributor.researchID23607955 - Davel, Marelie Hattingh


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