Speech processing for under-resourced languages is an active field of research, which has
experienced significant progress during the past decade. We propose, in this paper, a …

This paper reflects on the recently completed African Speech Technology (AST) Project. The
AST Project successfully developed eleven annotated telephone speech databases for five …

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 …

В последнее десятилетие активно развивающаяся область компьютерной обработки
речи для малоресурсных и миноритарных языков испытывает значительный подъем. В …

In this paper we investigate the rapid deployment of a twoway Afrikaans to English Speech-
to-Speech Translation system. We discuss the approaches and amount of work involved to …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly being developed for under-
resourced languages, especially for use in multilingual spoken dialogue systems. We …

The accent with which words are spoken can have a strong effect on the performance of a
speech recognition system. In a multilingual country such as South Africa where English is …

The objective of the work described here is to compare the isolated English language digit
speech recognition using Hidden Markov Model for speaker independent system. Two …

The authors describes the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new
telephone speech corpus which includes data from nine Southern Bantu languages …

Abstract The African Speech Technology project is developing telephone speech databases
for five of South Africa's eleven official languages, ie South African English, Afrikaans, and …