Comparative phonetic analysis and phoneme recognition for Afrikaans, English and Xhosa using the African Speech Technology telephone speech databases
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This paper concerns the Afrikaans, English and Xhosa speech databases recently developed as part of the African Speech Technology project. The three corpora are analysed and compared in terms of their phonetic content, diversity and mutual overlap. Connected phoneme recognition systems are subsequently developed and tested in each language.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- South African Computer Journal
دوره 32 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004