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Towards lecture transcription in resource-scarce environments
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2012)
We present progress towards automated Lecture Transcription (LT) in resource scarce environments. Our development has focused on the transcription of lectures in Afrikaans from two faculties at North-West University. A ...
Palatalisation of /s/ in Afrikaans
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2015)
This article reports on the investigation of the acoustic characteristics of the Afrikaans voiceless alveolar fricative /s/$^2$. As yet, a palatal [$\int$] for /s/ has been reported only in a limited case, namely where /s/ ...
Syllabification for Afrikaans speech synthesis
(Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2016)
This paper describes the continuing development of
a pronunciation resource for speech synthesis of Afrikaans by
augmenting an existing pronunciation dictionary to include syllable
boundaries and stress. Furthermore, ...
Speech recognition for under-resourced languages: Data sharing in hidden Markov model systems
(South African Journal of Science, 2017)
For purposes of automated speech recognition in under-resourced environments, techniques used to
share acoustic data between closely related or similar languages become important. Donor languages
with abundant resources ...