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    • The Analysis of the Sepedi-English Code-switched Radio News Corpus 

      Ramalepe, Simon; Modipa, Thipe I; Davel, Marelie H (UP Jornals, 2022)
      Code-switching is a phenomenon that occurs mostly in multilingual countries where multilingual speakers often switch between languages in their conversations. The unavailability of largescale code-switched corpora ...
    • Number pronunciation in a multilingual environment and implications for an ASR system 

      Molapo, Raymond; Barnard, Etienne (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2014)
      The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges and describe step-by-step solutions faced when developing an automatic speech recognition system in multilingual societies. We give a brief statistical analysis of ...
    • Predicting vowel substitution in code-switched speech 

      Modipa, Thipe I.; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2015)
      Abstract—The accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically degrades when encountering codeswitched speech. Some of this degradation is due to the unexpected pronunciation effects introduced when ...