ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We present the development of a pattern recognition system which is capable of classifying different Spoken Variants (SVs) of South African English (SAE) using a transcriptionless speech recognition ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the phoneme labels derived from a phoneme recogniser are used for phonetic speaker recognition. The time-dependencies among phonemes are modelled by using hidden Markov models (HMMs) for ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Automatic speech recognition applications have been developed for many languages in other countries but not much research has been conducted on developing Human Language Technology (HLT) for S.A. ...