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Efficient harvesting of Internet audio for resource-scarce ASR
(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 ...
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 ...
Bilateral G2P accuracy: measuring the effect of variants
(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, ...