Browsing Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "South African languages"

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    • 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 ...

    • The NCHLT Speech Corpus of the South African languages 

      Barnard, Etienne; Davel, Marelie H.; van Heerden, Charl; De Wet, Febe; Badenhorst, Jaco (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 ...