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    • The semi-automated creation of stratified speech corpora 

      Van Heerden, Carel; Barnard, Etienne; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)
      Smartphones provide an efficient means for the collection of speech data; however, the quality of the corpora created in this fashion is not predictable. We describe an approach that allows us to post-process and rank ...
    • Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora 

      Van Heerden, Carel J.; Barnard, Etienne; Davel, Marelie H. (SLTU, 2012)
      We investigate the effectiveness with which the accuracy of a prompted speech corpus can be validated when minimal additional speech resources are available, and specifically when a language model in the target language ...