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Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Retief Louw, Emma Sharratt, Febe de Wet +3
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify stu…
Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Emma Sharratt, Annelien Smith, Retief Louw +3
Oral narrative skills are strong predictors of later literacy development. This study examines the features of oral narratives from children who were identified by experts as requi…
Semi-supervised acoustic model training for five-lingual code-switched ASR
Astik Biswas, Emre Yılmaz, Febe de Wet +2
This paper presents recent progress in the acoustic modelling of under-resourced code-switched (CS) speech in multiple South African languages. We consider two approaches. The firs…
Building a Unified Code-Switching ASR System for South African Languages
Emre Yılmaz, Astik Biswas, Ewald van der Westhuizen +2
We present our first efforts towards building a single multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can process code-switching (CS) speech in five languages spoken w…