Browsing by Subject "Speech recognition"

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    • Bilateral G2P accuracy: measuring the effect of variants 

      Giwa, Oluwapelumi; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2017)
      Incorporating pronunciation variants in a dictionary is controversial, as this can be either advantageous or detrimental for a speech recognition system. Grapheme-tophoneme (G2P) accuracy can help guide this decision, ...

    • 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 ...

    • Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages 

      Badenhorst, Jaco; Van Heerden, Charl; Barnard, Etienne; Davel, Marelie H. (Springer, 2011)
      We describe the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which contains data from the eleven official languages of South Africa. Because of practical constraints, the amount of ...

    • Combining games and speech recognition in a multilingual educational environment 

      Booth, Martin (North-West University, 2014)
      Playing has been part of people's lives since the beginning of time. However, play does not take place in silence (isolated from speech and sound). The games people play allow them to interact and to learn through ...

    • 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 ...

    • Data sufficiency analysis for automatic speech recognition 

      Badenhorst, Jacob Andreas Cornelius (North-West University, 2009)
      The languages spoken in developing countries are diverse and most are currently under-resourced from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) perspective. In South Africa alone, 10 of the 11 official languages belong to this ...

    • Efficient harvesting of Internet audio for resource-scarce ASR 

      Davel, Marelie H.; van Heerden, Charl; Kleynhans, Neil; Barnard, Etienne (Interspeech 2011, 2011)
      Spoken recordings that have been transcribed for human reading (e.g. as captions for audiovisual material, or to provide alternative modes of access to recordings) are widely available in many languages. Such recordings ...

    • G2P variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD 

      Davel, Marelie H.; van Heerden, Charl; Barnard, Etienne (Interspeech 2013, 2013)
      Introducing pronunciation variants into a lexicon is a balancing act: incorporating necessary variants can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken term detection (STD) performance by capturing some of the ...

    • Implications of Sepedi/English code switching for ASR systems 

      Modipa, Thipe I.; De Wet, Febe; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)
      Code switching (the process of switching from one language to another during a conversation) is a common phenomenon in multilingual environments. Where a minority and dominant language coincide, code switching from the ...

    • Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages 

      Besacier, L.; Barnard, E.; Karpov, A.; Schultz, T. (Speech Communications, 2014)
      The creation of language and acoustic resources, for any given spoken language, is typically a costly task. For example, a large amount of time and money is required to properly create annotated speech corpora for automatic ...