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The NCHLT Speech Corpus of the South African languages
(Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU), 2014)
The NCHLT speech corpus contains wide-band speech from approximately
200 speakers per language, in each of the eleven
official languages of South Africa. We describe the design and
development processes that were ...
Performance analysis of a multilingual directory enquiries application
(Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference, 2014)
In a multilingual society such as South Africa, a
practical directory enquiries (DE) application should be able to
serve users from various language backgrounds with information
relating to names in various languages: ...
Number pronunciation in a multilingual environment and implications for an ASR system
(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 ...
Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages
(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 ...