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: A singing voice can be manipulated artificially by means of a digital computer for the purposes of creating new melodies or to correct existing ones. When the fundamental frequency of an audio signal ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Spoken dialogue systems accessed over the telephone network are rapidly becoming more popular as a means to reduce call-centre costs and improve customer experience. It is now technologically feasible ...

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. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Speech enhancement is the process of removing background noise from speech signals. The equivalent process for images is known as image denoising. While the Fourier transform is widely used for speech ...