Browsing Conference Papers - Vaal Triangle Campus by Author "Van Heerden, Carel J."

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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 ...

    • Towards lecture transcription in resource-scarce environments 

      De Villiers, Pieter; Jooste, Petri; Van Heerden, Carel J.; Barnard, Etienne (Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2012)
      We present progress towards automated Lecture Transcription (LT) in resource scarce environments. Our development has focused on the transcription of lectures in Afrikaans from two faculties at North-West University. A ...

    • Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora 

      Van Heerden, Carel J.; Barnard, Etienne; Davel, Marelie H. (SLTU, 2012)
      We investigate the effectiveness with which the accuracy of a prompted speech corpus can be validated when minimal additional speech resources are available, and specifically when a language model in the target language ...