Browsing Faculty of Engineering by Author "Basson, Willem D."

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    • Category-based phoneme-to-grapheme transliteration 

      Basson, Willem D.; Davel, Marelie H. (International Speech Communication Association ( ISCA ), 2013)
      Grapheme-based speech recognition systems are faster to develop but typically do not reach the same level of performance as phoneme-based systems. In this paper we introduce a technique for improving the performance of ...

    • Comparing grapheme-based and phoneme-based speech recognition for Afrikaans 

      Basson, Willem D.; Davel, Marelie H. (PRASA, 2012)
      This paper compares the recognition accuracy of a phoneme-based automatic speech recognition system with that of a grapheme-based system, using Afrikaans as case study. The first system is developed using a conventional ...

    • A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages 

      De Vries, Nic J.; Badenhorst, Jaco; Basson, Willem D.; De Wet, Febe; Barnard, Etienne; De Waal, Alta; Davel, Marelie H. (Elsevier, 2014)
      Acoustic data collection for automatic speech recognition (ASR) purposes is a particularly challenging task when working with under-resourced languages, many of which are found in the developing world. We provide a brief ...