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Phonene-based topic spotting on the switchboard corpus

Theunissen, M. W. (Marthinus Wilhelmus) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The field of topic spotting in conversational speech deals with the problem of identifying "interesting" conversations or speech extracts contained within large volumes of speech data. Typical applications ...

Automatic classification of spoken South African English variants using a transcription-less speech recognition approach

Du Toit, A. (Andre) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-03)

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 ...