Browsing Conference Papers - Vaal Triangle Campus by Author "De Wet, Febe"

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    • Automatic alignment of audiobooks in Afrikaans 

      Van Heerden, Carel J.; De Wet, Febe; Davel, Marelie H. (Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2012)
      This paper reports on the automatic alignment of audiobooks in Afrikaans. An existing Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary and corpus of Afrikaans speech data are used to generate baseline acoustic models. The baseline system ...

    • A distributed approach to speech resource collection 

      Molapo, Raymond; Barnard, Etienne; De Wet, Febe (Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)
      We describe the integration of several tools to enable the end-to-end development of an Automatic Speech Recognition system in a typical under-resourced language. Google App Engine is employed as the core environment for ...

    • 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 ...